Tania Chen/Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith/William Winant: Ocean Of Storms

Wadada Leo Smith | Winant (perc) | Henry Kaiser | Tania Chen

The title is evocative, but it conceals another image: streams of calm. Over five lengthy pieces improvised by a quartet...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017

Aaron Parks: Find the Way

Billy Hart | Aaron Parks | Ben Street

The 33-year-old pianist Aaron Parks first attracted the attention of the jazz cognoscenti playing in one of trumpeter Terence Blanchard's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Notilus

This French five-piece offer a peculiar sounding mixture of Mike Oldfield-esque arpeggiated synth and more cutting electronica with Milesian ideas...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Milt Jackson: The Early Years

The seven years leading up to the MJQ are covered extensively in this 48-track collection, and though there are gaps...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Henri Salvador: Babylone 21-29 + Succès

The French Guianese vocalist sings and strums his way though 31 songs on the borders of chanson and jazz, occasionally...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Portico Quartet: Art In The Age of Automation

Duncan Bellamy | Anisa Arslanagic | Francesca Ter-Burg | Jack Wylie | Milo Fitzpatrick | Keir Vine

Portico Quartet now know what's in a name. Over-thinking the departure of Hang drummer and keyboardist Keir Vine (himself a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2017

Nick Prol and the Proletarians: Look Attic

Jeremy Corbyn disciples might get excited about the name but the guitarist/singer/composer Nick Prol's songs are more indebted to the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Skelton Skinner Allstars Septet: The Odd Couple

Gordon Campbell | Rob Barron | Mike Lovatt | Alan Barnes | Colin Skinner | Matt Skelton | Jeremy Brown

Functioning as a kind of break-out group from the Skelton-Skinner Big Band, this smaller line-up released a well-regarded first album,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017

Cheer-Accident: Putting Off Death

Sacha Mullin | Rob Pleshar | Dante Kester | Joan Morrone | Cory Bengsten | Todd Fackler | Jeff Libersher | Mike Hegedorn | Ross Feller | Beth Yates

If you've been holding your breath since the Accident's last outing, you're doubtless a shade purple as six years have...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn: Anatomy of a Murder

All 25 music cues and a studio remake of the title sequence give an overview of this Grammy-winning movie score,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017