Mikele Montolli Trio: Satellite House

Jamie Murphy | Charlie Stacey | Mikele Montolli

Mikele Montolli is an Italian double bassist-composer in his early thirties who’s performed in a highly diverse number of settings...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: The World For it Know

A CD that consists of two conceptual pieces commissioned for orchestra and centred around the voice as abstract sound source...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Smoke: Everything

Akira Tana | Kenny Kenkins | Shirley Puckett | Hakim Ali Muhammad | Woodi Webb | Lani Wilson | Gary Griffieth | Danny Daniels | Curtis Clark | Nardy Dedmann

This multi-racial Californian group’s choice of moniker pretty much nails their gang colours to the mast. Here’s a clue: they’re...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2018

Blanco y Negro: Timbero

Jonas Johanesen | Karl-Martin Almqvist | Yasser Morejon | Eliel Lazo | Abel Marcel

A decade or so ago the Cuban-Scandinavian outfit Blanco y Negro were a byword for classy latin jazz, what with...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2018

Diego Pinera: Despertando

Based in Germany, this Uruguayan drummer-percussionist’s quintet offers a genuinely different latin-orientation based on his nativeland’s rhythms of Candombe, mionga...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Tore Brunborg & Steinar Raknes: Backcountry

Tore Brunborg | Steinar Raknes

It’s one thing being recognised from the inside as one of Norway’s top jazz musicians, quite another garnering a similar...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018

John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: All Can Work

Alan Ferber | Anna Webber | John Hollenbeck | Matt Holman | Chris Tordini | JC Sanford | Ben Kono | Mike Christianson | Matt Mitchell | Jeff Nelson

Two Grammy-nominated releases – A Blessing in 2006 and Eternal Interlude in 2009 – is not bad going for a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Marta Sánchez Quintet: Danza Impossible

This New York-based pianist-composer is influenced by Brad Mehldau, her Spanish folk roots and New Music forms on her third...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Reggie Washington: Rainbow Shadow

With his gritty approach to meshing blues-rock, funk and jazz, the ex-Steve Coleman electric bassist with a band that includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Simon Lasky Group: About the Moment

Sophie Alloway | Fergus Gerrand | Simon Lasky | Pete Billington | Luca Boscagin | Philip Achille | Kuljit Bhamra

“Live in the moment” is a very ‘now’ sort of sentiment – and, curiously, a very ‘then’ sort of one...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2018