Tom Harrell: Moving Picture

Adam Crus | Ugonna Okegwo | Dany Grissett | Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell has long sustained an impeccable record as one of the most thoughtful and articulate trumpet players on the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Ian Shaw: Shine Sister Shine

Barry Green | Mick Hutton | Dave Ohm | Ian Shaw

From the heart-melting, understated delicacy of Gwyneth Herbert’s ‘Not The Kind Of Girl’ to the rambunctious piano-vocal take on Sarah...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Pentangle: The Albums 1968-1972

John Renbourn | Danny Thompson | Terry Cox | Bert Jansch | Jacqui McShee

Formed out of jams at London’s Horseshoe Hotel in mid-1967, at the beginning of an unprecedented period of musical cross-fertilisation...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Sinne Eeg: Dreams

It’s ironically refreshing to hear a young mainstream Scandinavian jazz singer not taking the typical native folk-inflected route but taking...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Chris Speed Trio: Platinum on Tap

Dave King | Chris Tordini | Chris Speed

The quietly influential saxophonist Chris Speed’s CV reads like a Who’s Who of some of the most essential contemporary rock/...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Peter Jones: Under the Setting Sun

A suave yet delicate-toned, London-based hep singer-songwriter, who’s especially indebted to the late Mark Murphy, has capable support from a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Fred Frith: Storytelling: Live at Theater Gütersloh

Fred Frith | Lotte Anker | Sam D໨sler

This live recording is presented by the German Jazz Thing magazine as part of a series entitled ‘European Jazz Legends’...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Lorenzo Feliciati: Elevator Man

Lorenzo Feliciati | Pierluigi Bastioli | Roy Powell | Armando Croce | Claudio Corvini | Sandro Satta | Cuong Vu | Mattias IA Eklundh | Gianluca Plamieri | Antonio Jasevoli

Anyone who’s heard virtuosic and versatile Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati with his no less than four other RareNoiseRecords bands Naked...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Stan Kenton: Concerts in Miniature (1953) Part 19

Documenting Kenton’s weekly radio ‘remotes’ from around the country, this catches the band making changes with Bill Holman experimenting with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Roswell Rudd/Fay Victor/Lafayette Harris/Ken Filiano: Embrace

Ken Filiano | Lafayette Harris | Roswell Rudd | Fay Victor

Legendary trombonist Rudd has chosen album titles well of late. His RareNoise debut, Strength And Power, was a thrilling example...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018