Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Astrild Astrild

These Brittany-based doom and gloom merchants are primarily inspired by David Lynch composer Angelo Badalamenti, but his otherworldly soundscape also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Matthew Bourne: Isotach

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne's fourth solo album was recorded at home, looking out across storm-battered Yorkshire moors, during “a period when my...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2017

Charlie Bates Big Band: Silhouettes

Sam Craig | Vittorio Mura | Percy Pursglove | Jonathan Silk | Charlie Bates | David Tibbitts | Daniel Kemshell | Christos Sylianides | Richard Foote | Andrew Clennell

Charlie Bates, a recent graduate of Birmingham Conservatoire's jazz course, foregoes his usual piano role to conduct this recording of...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: September/2017

Joris Teepe & Don Braden: Conversations

Team-up between the Dutch, ex-Rashied Ali quintet bassist and the expressive New York-based saxophonist who carry a wealth of first-class...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Farnell Newton: Back to Earth

Greg Goebel | Kyle Molitor | Christopher Brown | Farnell Newton | Dylan Sundstrom

Quite a few of Posi-Tone's artistes are based on America's west coast and not that well-known in the UK, though...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2017

George Lewis: Shadowgraph 5 (Sextet)

Vintage AACM free improvisation, demonstrating the ‘little sounds’ by which Howard Mandel characterises this music, especially on the sextet ‘Monads’...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Kirk Knuffke: Cherryco

Jay Anderson | Adam Nussbaum | Kirk Knuffke

The in-demand cornetist's recent ventures include Michael Formanek's ECM album The Distance, Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family and collaborations with...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2017

Andy Haas: Taballah II

The ex-downtown saxophonist-producer Andy Haas creates a cohesive yet blurry quasi-conversational soundscape of throbbing, glitchy electronica and Indian and eastern-inflected...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Gonimoblast with Maja S.K. Ratkje and Arve Henriksen: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jason Marsalis | Jasen Weaver | Oscar Rossignoli

Although jazz is a vehicle for both individual and group identities, in many bands it is the personality and character...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: August/2020

Hiroe Sekine: One World One Sun

The Californian-based, Japanese pianist has fused jazz with the sounds of her home country as well as Morocco, Indonesia, India...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017