Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls: Pathways

Besides his solo jazz output, Leicester-based pianist Conway has made countless new age/mood music recordings and there's a similar non-offensive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Albert Ayler: Copenhagen Live 1964

Sunny Murray | Gary Peacock | Don Cherry | Albert Ayler

A stellar quartet captured in its prime, playing a repertoire that most devotees will know well – ‘Spirits’, ‘Vibrations’, ‘Saints’,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017

Oliver Nelson: A Taste of Honey/Impressions of Phaedra

Two film scores in their entirety by Nelson and a NY all-star big band are good additions to any Nelson...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Matthew Shipp: Invisible Touch At Taktlos Zurich

Matthew Shipp

Shipp's recent extensive output with saxophonist Ivo Perelman has underlined how effective a team player he is, so this absorbing...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017

Rüdiger Carl Inc.: King Alcohol

Günter Christmann | Detlef Schönenberg | Rüdiger Carl

Rüdiger Carl has been a mercurial presence in European free music for four and a half decades – a former...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2017

Mark Murphy: Wild and Free

Babatunde Lea | Peter Barshay | Mark Murphy | Paul Potyen | Jack Gobetti

Recorded live at San Francisco's legendary Keystone Korner in June 1980, and sandwiched between his 1979 album Satisfaction Guaranteed and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2017

Rubén Gonzalez: Introducing… Rubén Gonzalez

Juan de Marcos González | Manuel ‘Puntillita’ Licea | Orlando ‘Cachaito’ Lopez | Ruben Gonzalez | Carlos Puisseaux | Carlos Gonzales | Amadito Valdes | Alberto ‘Virgilio’ Valdes | Manuel Guarijo Mirabel | Antonio ‘Maceo Rodriguez

Can it really be 20 years since the Buena Vista Social Club cha-cha-cha-ed their way to world domination? Since Cuban...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2017

Noah Kaplan Quartet: Cluster Swerve

Joe Morris | Noah Kaplan | Jason Nazary | Giacomo Merega

As Joe Morris says in his sleeve note, saxophonist Noah Kaplan did indeed “get a lot” from his studies with...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2017

Alex Sipiagin: Moments Captured

Matt Brewer | Alex Sipiagin | Will Vinson | John Escreet | Alina Engibaryan | Chris Potter | Eric Harland

We really are being blessed with some marvellous music on record this year and here is another brilliant CD from...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2017

Dan Terry: The Swingingest Dance Band

Based in Hollywood in the early 1950s, trumpeter Terry led some exemplary big bands, continuing his work in NY in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017