Pau Brasil & Ensemble SP & Renato Braz: Villa-Lobos Superstar

Ricardo Mosca | Robert Suetholz | Rodolfo Stroeter | Nelson Ayres | Nelson Rios | Betina Stegman | Marcelo Jaffé | Paulo Bellinati | Teco Cardoso | Renato Braz

Everyone in Brazil loves Heitor Villa-Lobos, that 20th century composer who once said that his first harmony teacher was a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2017

Wendy Kirkland.//Quartet: Piano Divas

A British singer with an easy-going Anglicised vocal take on material that refreshingly avoids jazz barroom stylisation, in a tribute...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

William Parker Quartets: Meditation/Resurrection

Rob Brown | Cooper-Moore (p) | William Parker | Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson | Hamid Drake

Although there is considerable overlap in personnel between the two groups that feature on this double CD there is a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017

Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh: Sex Tape

Peter Brötzmann | Heather Leigh

When the German tenor titan first teamed up with the Texan-born pedal steel guitarist, it might have seemed like an...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2017

Rob Luft: Riser

Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Tom McCredie | Rob Luft | Corrie Dick

Can a man and his music be too happy? From the rippling hi-life rhythms that kick off Riser’ s opening...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

The Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook: Volumes and II

Bob Quaranta | Ted Kooshian | Bruce McDaniel | Ben Kono | Charley Gordon | Napoleon Murphy Brock | Katie Jacoby | Phil Chester | Ed Palermo | John Bailey

Palermo's primarily known for his bravura big band assaults on the music of Frank Zappa, not least on last year's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

The Great Harry Hillman: Tilt

This post-rock Swiss collective, titled after a forgotten Olympic gold medallist, have a spaced-out, grungy vibe that echoes the likes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Pulcinella: ¾ d'once

Toulouse-based quartet making a joyful noise with a spicy cocktail of East European folk dance rhythms and contemporary jazz extemporisation....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

David Amram/Eric Mingus/Larry Simon/Groove Bacteria: Langston Hughes: The Dreamkeeper

Mike Barron | David Amram | Frank Laurino | Don Davis | Shawn Russell | Larry Simon | Cynthia Chatis | Catherine Sikora | Scip Gallant | Eric Mingus

A dazzling highlight of the 2015 London jazz festival, Ron McCurdy's Ask Your Mama was a timely reminder of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017

Charles Lloyd New Quartet: Passin' Thru

Jason Moran | Charles Lloyd | Reuben Rogers | Eric Harland

Charles Lloyd formed his New Quartet in April 2007, and has toured and recorded with it whenever he has returned...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2017