Noah Preminger: Meditations on Freedom

Noah Preminger | Kim Cass | Jason Palmer | Ian Froman

Trump's election has not only firmed up the tendency for musicians to frame their music in a political context –...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2017

Elvin Jones Jazz Machine: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Frank Tusa | Badal Roy | Richie Beirach | Jeff Williams | Dave Liebman

The French series covers major figures by excerpting their work from a large number of albums and, since Elvin did...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

VEIN: The Chamber Music Effect

Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenz | Thomas Lähns

Swiss trio VEIN are masters of musical interplay. Over the course of the last decade they've developed fruitful collaborations with...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2017

William Parker & Stefano Scodanibbio: Bass Duo

Stefano Scodanibbio | William Parker

Italian double bassist Stefano Scodanibbio, who died in 2012, was renowned for the ease with which he negotiated scores, often...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017

Freddie Gavita: Transient

Tom Cawley | Freddie Gavita | James Maddren | Calum Gourlay

Freddie Gavita is a trumpeter/flugelhornist who's been turning heads as a member of Ronnie Scott's quintet and orchestra as well...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Omer Klein: Sleepwalkers

A disappointing effort from an otherwise classy Israeli-born German-based pianist, laying bare some of the flaws of diluting piano trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Joan Shaw: A Retrospective

One of Fresh Sound's excellent anthologies designed to rehabilitate a forgotten talent, and Shaw is a fine singer, in some...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

The Steve Plews Trio: The Importance Of What Is Not

A primarily classical music-influenced, jazzy North West England born pianist-composer leads his trio, on the whole, through a rather plodding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Eskelin, Weber & Griener: Sensations Of Tone

Christian Weber | Michael Griener | Ellery Eskelin

The concept looks inviting enough on paper. Re-imaginings of compositions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bennie Moten, Fats Waller and the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017

Shobaleader One: Elektrac

Company Laser/Adam Betts | Arg Nution/Chris Montague | Strobe Nazard/Dan Nichols | Squarepusher/Tom Jenkinson

Do you know Squarepusher? This is a question anyone who's followed the mercurial multi-instrumentalist, aka Tom Jenkinson, for the last...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2017