Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Live In Brussels

Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | Brandon Lopez | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | William Parker | Joe Hertenstein | Bobby Kapp | Gerald Cleaver

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Flip Phillips: Your Place Or Mine?

One of Phillips’s oddest records, a duo with guitarist Dell Staton. Though Flip’s playing has all the control and certainty...

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

Duke Jordan Trio: Complete 1954-62 Recordings

One of the key players in the early days of bebop, this combines two early Jordan albums and a couple...

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

Erland Dahlen: Clocks

Erland Dahlen

Imagine Phil Collins set adrift on a hostile alien world, with only his drum machines to punch his way through...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Ray Charles: Live 1958-60

David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Ray Charles | John Hunt | Edgar Willis | Phillip Guilbeau | Richard Goldberg | Lee Harper | Teagle Fleming | The Raelettes | Hank Crawford

In June 1952, Atlantic Records purchased Charles’ recording contract for $2,500, but the Ertegun Brothers were later outbid by RCA-Victor...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Marilena Paradisi/Kirk Lightsey: Some Place Called Where

A duo between Italian vocalist and veteran Detroit born pianist Lightsey, who has recorded with Chet and toured with Dexter...

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

Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit/The Cosmic Scene

The first of these albums is by the full Ellington band, supplemented by some additional material from round the 1958-59...

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

Laginha Argülles Norbakken: Setembro

Mário Laginha | Andreas Norbakken | Julian Arg໥lles

Since starting out as a founding member of the inspirational, recently resurrected 1980s Brit collective Loose Tubes, Julian Argüelles has...

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

BNNT: Multiverse

Jim Hart | Ivo Neame

This combustible post-Krautrock Polish trio have Norway’s The Thing sax colossus Mats Gustafsson as guest on their mix of pounding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Keyon Harrold: The Mugician

Chris Dave | Hanan Rubenstein | Pino Palladino | Robert Glasper | Pharoahe Monch | Keyon Harrold | Bilal Oliver | Mark Colenburg | Guy Torry | Big K.R.I.T

Having racked up impressive sideman credits with the likes of Gregory Porter, Marcus Strickland and Robert Glasper, trumpeter Harrold makes...

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