Space Captain: All Flowers in Time

A friendly experimental Brooklyn-based pop group headed by the singer Maralisa Simmons-Cook with bossa, hip hop, R&B, indie guitar and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Gabriel Latchin Trio: Introducing…

This trio, featuring the Empirical bassist Tom Farmer, is led by a London-based young fogey-ish pianist who draws on Cedar...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Jimmy Smith Trio With Kenny Burrell: Complete 1957-1959 Sessions

Kenny Burrell | Donald Bailey | Jimmy Smith | Philly Joe Jones | Art Blakey

There can be no room for backsliding in a power trio as led by Jimmy Smith. Though he was well...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2017

Maria Pia De Vito: Core (Coração)

Maria Pia De Vito | Chico Buarque | Ensemble Vocale Burnogualà | Gabriele Mirabassi | Roberto Taufic | Roberto Rossi | Huw Warren

Beautifully recorded at Casa del Jazz in Rome and La Seine Studios in Paris – take a bow recording engineer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2017

The Vampires: Meet Lionel Loueke

This quartet (pictured) from ‘down under’ draws persuasively on global roots influences from Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Balkan, adding Afro-beat, hip hop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Erb Baker Rosaly: …Don't Buy Him a Parrott

Swiss reedsman Christoph Erb continues his close association with the Chicago avant-garde with a free collective trio (featuring experienced pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Seymour Wright: Is This Right? Saxophone Solos 2014-2017

Seymour Wright

Seymour Wright made his mark as a long-term attendee of AMM percussionist Eddie Prévost's Friday evening improvisation workshops but has...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017

Will Butterworth Quartet: The Nightingale and the Rose

Seb Pipe | Pete Ibbetson | Nick Pini | Will Butterworth

It's a dramatic and somewhat maudlin tale, is Oscar Wilde's short story ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. The titular bird...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2017

Gary Peacock: Tangents

Joey Baron | Gary Peacock | Marc Copland

Beyond his legend-making free jazz work with Albert Ayler, the double-bassist Gary Peacock has had one of the most extraordinary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Lost Recordings – Live At The Kurhaus, 1967

Joe Morello | Paul Desmond | Eugene Wright | Dave Brubeck

At the end of 1967, the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet embarked on their final European tour – a lap of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2017