Helge Lien Trio: Guzuguzu

Frode Berg | Per Oddvar Johansen | Helge Lien

Helge Lein is one of Norway's most accomplished pianists, stylistically broad, as he showed during his period as Silje Nergaard's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017

John Warren The Brass Project: The Traveller's Tale

John Marshall | Steve Waterman | Pete Beachill | Kenny Hamilton | John Warren | Malcolm Griffths | Steve Sidwell | John Surman | Guy Barker | Chris Laurence

Today, anything by the late lamented Brass Project of John Warren and John Surman is worth grabbing without a second's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Glare Of The Tiger

The fascinating percussionist, global music griot and close collaborator of the late Yusef Lateef is on a funk-fuelled, Bill Laswell-ish...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V

Brandon Seabrook | Tony Malaby | Kenny Wollesen | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks

Opsvik must rattle up the air miles as he sustains a career on the busy New York and Oslo jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017

Kevin Eubanks: East West Time Line

Kevin Eubanks | Orrin Evans | Dave Holland | Nicholas Payton | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Mino Cinelu | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Bill Pierce | Rene Camacho

This is very much a game of two halves, or an album of two sides, with the proviso that the...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: May/2017

Loz Speyer's Inner Space: Life on the Edge

Rachel Musson | Loz Speyer | Gary Willcox | Chris Biscoe | Olie Brice

The sleeve notes reference Ornette – with Dewey Redman and the Art Ensemble of Chicago thrown in for good measure...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017

Cheetham/Birchall/Webster/Willberg: Plastic Knuckle

Andrew Cheetham | Colin Webster | Otto Willberg | David Birchall

Four musicians, a pair of duos from Manchester and London, meet up for a series of one-off studio sessions in...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2017

Various Artists: My Fair Lady in Jazz

A bit of a ragbag, with three 10-inch LPs by Previn, Peterson, and Billy Taylor put together with sessions by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Various Artists: Running the Voodoo Down: Explorations In Psychrockfunksouljazz 1967-80

Funkadelic | Buddy Miles | James Brown | Keith Jarrett | James ‘Blood’ Ulmer | The Isley Brothers | Don Cherry | The Headhunters | Sly & The Family Stone | Miles Davis

This great compilation begins with James Brown's ebullient pride, still screaming in victorious defiance at the fade-out of ‘Talkin' Loud...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2017

Denys Baptiste: Late Trane

Rod Youngs | Denys Baptiste | Gary Crosby | Steve Williamson | Nikki Yeoh | Neil Charles

I was fortunate enough to see the saxophonist perform this tribute to Coltrane at last year's London Jazz Festival, and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2017