Jam Experiment

Jonny Mansfield | Alexander Bone | Joe Lee | Rory Ingham | Toby Comeau

Founded in Manchester in 2014, the nucleus of Jam Experiment was formed out of Chetham's School of Music alumni. Still...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Live At The Blue Whale

Mark de Clive-Lowe | Josh Johnson | Gene Coye | Brandon Eugene Owens

New Zealander de Clive-Lowe is a veteran of London's broken beat scene but now based in LA, where this live...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2017

Nicholas Payton: Afro-Caribbean Mixtape

Joe Dyson | Bruce Owen | Vicente Archer | Nicholas Payton | Kevin Hays | Daniel Sadownick | Philip von Maltzahn | Grayson Brockcamp | DJ Lady Fingaz | Eva Liebhaber

Payton's interest in West Indian music has surfaced on numerous occasions during his two-decade career, but this is the most...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2017

Quercus: Nightfall

Dieter Ilg | Till Brönner

June Tabor has enjoyed a long association with jazz musicians of nearly 30 years now, having recorded her first jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Bhattacharya/Grønseth/Wessel

Subhashis Bhattacharya | Anders Lonne Grønseth | Debashish Bhattacharya | Kenny Wessel

The legendary Debashish Bhattacharya plays swoonsome slide guitar, on axes of his own design, plus more traditional National steels. His...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017

Joe Newman: The Happy Cats

Four LPs on two CDs of Newman in good form in the mid-1950s, surrounded by Basie-ites, but for the most...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales

Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Stephan Crump

Formerly London-based, Ingrid Laubrock has subsequently established a name for herself over her eight years on Brooklyn's leftfield jazz and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Duke Ellington: An Intimate Piano Session

The first commercial issue of a solo set from NY in 1972 (with singers Anita Moore and Tony Watkins) is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Jeremy Pelt: Make Noise!

Jacquelene Acevado | Victor Gould | Jeremy Pelt | Vincente Archer | Jonathan Barber

With every new Jeremy Pelt album, there's always something different to look forward to. This is the follow-up to the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2017

Stuart Popejoy: Pleonoid

This bass guitarist's algorithmic-based composition lasts an entirely joyless 60 minutes, in spite of it featuring a few notable fellow...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017