Trio HLK: Standard Time

Rich Harrold | Steve Lehman | Dame Evelyn Glennie | Richard Kass | Ant Law

Standard Time is coded language. The sources for five of the eight pieces on the British ensemble's Ubuntu records debut...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

Errol Linton: Packing my Bags

Time seems to stands still for the old Chicago blues-worshipping Brixton-based harmonica player/vocalist Errol Linton, even though his genre classics...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus

These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Walter Smith III: Twio

Christian McBride | Walter Smith | Joshua Redman | Harish Raghavan | Eric Harland

Many listeners probably woke up to the patiently-spun, dry-toned lines of Texan tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III around 2011, on...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2018

Eyolf Dale: Return to Mind

The pianist-composer follows up his fine 2016 Norwegian Grammy-nominated Wolf Valley with an octet recording that develops his shapely orchestrations...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Allen Ginsberg: Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl And Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2018

Spirit Fingers

Mike Mitchell | Dario Chiazzolino | Hadrien Feraud | Greg Spero

The interest in fusion today among young musicians is a curious thing. The long hair and flares of the 1970s...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2018

Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live From San Pedro

Tamir Hendelman | Jeff Hamilton | Christopher Luty

Hamilton's trio took time out from their regular gig as the rhythm section of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, based in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018

Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection

Ray Copeland | Frank Foster | Percy Heath | Curley Russell | Tommy Potter | Max Roach | Julius Watkins | Thelonious Monk | Sonny Rollins | Gary Mapp

Listening to music on 10-inch LPs, as opposed to treating them as lifestyle accessories, is rather like drinking craft beers...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2018

Shatner's Bassoon: Disco Erosion

Michael Bardon | Oliver Dover | Johnny Richards | Joost Hendrickx | Craig Scott

With a name pilfered from one of the more absurd episodes of Chris Morris's Brass Eye, Shatner's Bassoon have always...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2018