Arto Lindsay: Cuidado Madame

Arto Lindsay | Mike King | Paul Wilson | Kassa Overall | Patrick Higgins | Melvin Gibbs

A skronking guitar, a voice like streaming silk, some skittering drum'n'bass and Arto Lindsay is back after 13 years, all...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2017

GIW: Never is Always

Cologne-based artist Pablo Giw's spoken-word, James Blake influenced vocals and minimalist trumpet is filtered through Colin Stetson-style looping and electronic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

LA Express: LA Express/Shadow Play

Victor Feldman | David Luell | John Guerin | Robben Ford

An intriguing two-fer, if only for the absence of one musician and the presence of another. Tom Scott's name was...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Red Price, Ray Warleigh & Chris Pyne with the Johnny Burch Trio: Groovin' High: Jam Session at The Hopbine 1965

Chris Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Johnny Burch | Red Price | Ray Warleigh | Alan ‘Buzz’ Green

For those not in the know, the Hopbine was a 1930s boozer in North Wembley where tenorist Tommy Whittle hosted...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2017

Phallus Dei: Black Dawn

Oliver St. Lingam | Peter Brötzmann | Jacqueline Hamelink | Niels Van Hoorn | Richard Van Kruysdijk | Merzbow | MK. E.

Named after the scurrilously titled 1969 debut album by kraut-prog pioneers, Amon Düül II, Phallus Dei are actually a German...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2017

Ahmad Jamal: Marseille

Manolo Badrena | Mina Agossi | Ahmad Jamal | James Cammack | Abd Al Malik | Herlin Riley

A new album from Ahmad Jamal is always an event, as he has seldom stood still in his career, always...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Gerald Albright: G

The US saxophonist Albright, a leading practitioner of the so-called ‘smooth jazz’ phenomenon, continues to plummet the depths of its...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Verneri Pohjola: Pekka

Teemu Viinikainen | Verneri Pohjola | Antti Lötjönen | Mika Kallio | Tuomo Prättälä

There was a time during the 1970s and 1980s in Finland when the electric bassist Pekka Pohjola was being talked...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos

Marcello Gonçalves | Anat Cohen

I was feeling a little sleepy, perhaps a bit downbeat even. Then I put on these two records and I...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2017

Oliver Lake Featuring Flux Quartet: Right Up On

Conrad Harris | Max Mandel | Tom Chiu | Flexi Fan | Oliver Lake

Lake has been an intrepid explorer over some five decades, appearing in a vast array of contexts. His orchestral work...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017