Elektrojazz: New York Tribute

Sounding about as original as its band name, the Copenhagen-based Swedish trombonist Anders Larson's ensemble takes New York's urban backdrop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Arthur Blythe: Elaborations/Light Blue/Put Sunshine In It

Bob Stewart | Muhammed Abdullah | Kelvyn Bell | Arthur Blythe | Bobby Battle | Gerry Brown | Paulinho da Costa | Alphonso Johnson | Wilbur Morris | Abdul Wadud

The recent reissue of Blythe's mid-1970s output included the classic Illusions, and this batch of three reminds us that he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2017

The Jay Rayner Quartet: A Night of Food and Agony

The Masterchef judge and witty restaurant critic moonlights as a cabaret jazz pianist and this is a ‘live’ set of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Jon Hassell: Dream Theory In Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two

Miguel Frasconi | Michael Brook | Brian Eno | Jon Hassell | Walter De Maria

When Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts introduced a relatively broad audience to its...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2017

James Blood Ulmer with The Thing: Baby Talk

Paal Nilssen-Love | James Blood Ulmer | Mats Gustafsson | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

This fine recording from 2015's Molde International Jazz Festival offers an increasingly rare opportunity to hear new James Blood Ulmer...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: November/2017

Marialy Pacheco: Duets

Lewis Wright | Kit Downes

With a seemingly endless stream of brilliant Cuban pianists – from Gonzalo Rubalcaba through to David Virelles – all male...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2018

Dwiki Dharmawan/Gilad Atzmon/Kamal Musallam: Word Peace Trio

Dwiki Dharmawan | Gilad Atzmon | Asaf Sirkis | Nasser Salameh | Kamal Musallam | Ade Rudiana

World Peace Trio was recorded a matter of months after Dharmawan's sensational bolt-from-the blue earlier in the year, the 2CD...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017

Rez Abbasi: Unfiltered Universe

Dan Weiss | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Rez Abbasi | Johannes Weidenmueller | Elizabeth Mikhael | Vijay Iyer

South Indian Carnatic music energises Unfiltered Universe, part three of the acclaimed jazz guitarist and conceptualist's trilogy on which he...

Reviewed by John Murph in issue: November/2017

Julian Costello Quartet: Transitions

An underexposed saxophonist-composer in the post-Garbarek mould, Costello is clear-toned and assertive while performing originals with his pastoral jazz quartet,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Last Dream Of The Morning

Mark Sanders | John Edwards | John Butcher

These three hugely experienced British improvisers have played together in various duo formations and other groups over the years but,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2017