Nitin Sawhney: Live At Ronnie Scott's

Jonathan Harvey | Bill Laurance | Marijus Aleksa

“For any musician growing up in or around London, especially if you’ve grown up loving great improvisation, as I did,”...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2020

Spindle Ensemble: Bea

Part of the Bristol collective Bloom, the pianist Daniel Inzani’s quartet welds African grooves to post-impressionistic chamber music and the...

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

Various Artists: The Exciting Jazz Of The Early 70ies

Todd Canedy | Jimmy Woode | Fritz Pauer | Michael Dennert | Art Farmer | Rob Pronk | Erich Bachtraegl | Billie Brooks | Jan Hammer | Gunter Lenz

Let’s get that title out of the way – the exciting jazz of the early 1970s might conjure up thoughts...

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

Borderlands Trio: Asteroida

New York’s Borderlands trio is pianist Kris Davis, Vijay Iyer trio bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Eric McPherson, their project...

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

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Joe Hertenstein: Scalene

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

Miles Davis & Bill Evans: Complete Studio & Live Masters

Jimmy Cobb | Miles Davis | Bill Evans | Paul Chambers | Michel Legrand orchestra | Cannonball Adderley | John Coltrane | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

This appears such an obvious idea that you wonder why no compiler has thought of it before. Basically, the contents...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Indigo Kid III: Moment Gone in the Clouds

Tim Giles | Dan Messore | Gareth Lockrane | Calum Gourlay

On his third album recorded under the moniker Indigo Kid, the young guitarist-composer Dan Messore continues to hone a singular...

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

King Crimson: Live in Chicago 28 June 2017

Tony Levin | Mel Collins | Jeremy Stacey | Robert Fripp | Pat Mastelotto | Jakko Jakszyk | Bill Rieflin | Gavin Harrison

Fripp once proudly defined late Crimson incarnations as the band that didn’t do ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’. But this reconstituted...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Quartet & Quintet: Double Vortex

John Dikeman | Colin Webster | Dirk Serries | Andrew Lisle | Alan Wilkinson

The bumbling spoken introductions to these two sets, recorded live at London's Vortex Club, do little to prepare the listener...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2017

Various Artists: The Passion of Charlie Parker

Donny McCaslin | Ben Monder | Kandace Springs | Gregory Porter | Craig Taborn | Kurt Elling | Mark Giuliana

The presence of producer Larry Klein on any recording is always a marker of artistic excellence, and such is the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2017