Torben Waldorff: Holiday on Fire

An ex-US, now Swedish-based, guitarist-composer showcases his enigmatic Metheny-derived originals in a quintet featuring his wife Maggi Olin on piano,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Enrico Pieranunzi Quartet: New Spring – Live At The Village

Donny McCaslin | Clarence Penn | Scott Colley | Enrico Pieranunzi

This is such a classy record in every respect. The musicians – and the musicianship – are of the highest...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2017

Freddie Hubbard: Four Classic Albums

For what originally started out as a small two-man operation, Blue Note discovered mainly relatively unknown talent and in many...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2020

Scott Hamilton: The Shadow of Your Smile

Scott Hamilton | Dena DeRose | Ignasi González | Jo Krause

Once the boy wonder of neo-mainstream, Scott Hamilton is now, unbelievably, in his early sixties. No longer tied to his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2017

The Angelica Sanchez Trio: Float the Edge

Tyshawn Sorey | Michael Formanek | Angelica Sanchez

Some piano trios like to swing out the standards, others remain unrepentantly avant-garde and are perhaps better defined as adventurers...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2017

John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions

Red Mitchell | Shelly Manne | Hampton Hawes | Red Callender | Don Bagley | Jack Montrose | Shorty Rogers | Art Pepper | Larry Bunker | Paul Moer

It's said that the French horn is frequently used in orchestral music to both soothe or lift the spirits –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2017

Sidney Bechet and Claude Luter: Moulin à Café

An anthology featuring Bechet and his principal French collaborator from 1949-1955, this has just the highlights of their work, whereas...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2017

Oliver Lake/Joseph Bowie: Live At A Space

Oliver Lake | Jospeh Bowie

All improvised music has a degree of risk but a duet is high-wire stuff, especially in this case, as each...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017

Zachary Gvirtzman: Father Tongues

Most of these mediations for solo piano were performed ‘in the moment’ and the F-IRE Collective member Gvirtzman's patient, spatially-aware...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Barney Wilen: Tilt

The French saxophonist, whose record debut was on the Roy Haynes set reviewed last month, was two months short of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017