Jü: Summa

Erno Hock | Kjetil Møster | András Halmos | Bálint Bolcsó | Ádám Mészáros

Like many RareNoise bands, Jü defy definition, but there's no denying the energy and freedom that underwrites the great swathes...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017

Josephine Davies: Satori

Josephine Davies | Dave Whitford | Paul Clarvis

Just as in a card game blow-hard bluffers can risk overplaying their hands, so in music hard-blowing jazzers are sometimes...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Martin Pyne: Behind The Mist

The eclectic UK-based vibraphonist Martin Pyne's solo recording is quite an enchanting one, with the kind of ethereal and translucent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Trio Mediæval & Arve Henriksen: Rímur

Linn Andrea Fuglseth | Anna Maria Friman | Arve Henriksen | Berit Opheim

Time was when it was a sax, but these days there's nothing that says ‘jazz’ quite so clearly as the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Johnny Dankworth: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid's double-CD combines Dankworth's The Vintage Years, Collaboration, and England's Ambassador of Jazz albums with an EP taken from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Pan-Scan Ensemble: Air and Light and Time and Space

One of those where you really had to be there I guess: free jazz collective mayhem Scandinavian-stylee recorded live in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Satoko Fujii: Invisible Hand

Though she's a prolific recording artist, Fujii releases a rare solo piano album recorded live in Japan; the 2CD set...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Natalia Mateo: De Profundis

A Björk/Joni Mitchell influenced Polish Berlin-based singer sticks mainly to her mother tongue on some haunting, understated originals and there's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Marvin Parks

Pietro Lussu | Nicola Conte | Luca Alemanno | Marvin Parks | Nicola Angelucci

The Baltimore-born, Paris-based vocalist Marvin Parks first came to wider attention in 2012 when he appeared on the well-received Brooklyn...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2017

Hot 8 Brass Band: On The Spot

This hard-hitting Grammy-winning Big Easy-style band are on their fifth album and here their explosive blend of N'Orleans second line,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017