Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse

Fartun Tahir | Samuel Hällkvist | Dave Manington | Lewis Wright | Dudley Phillips | Shabaka Hutchings | Corrina Silvester | Naadia Sherriff | Martin France | Yazz Ahmed

The Bahraini-born trumpeter and flugelhornist Yazz Ahmed has real rock credentials playing with Radiohead, These New Puritans and Joan as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Cheetham/Webster/Willberg: The Small Departs, The Great Approaches

Andrew Cheetham | Colin Webster | Otto Willberg

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

Fuse One: Fuse One/Silk

Ronnie Foster | Wynton Marsalis | Tony Williams | Manolo Badrena | Marcus Miller | Victor Feldman | Lenny White | Tom Browne | Stanley Turrentine | Paulino de Costa

Check out that personnel list and genuflect most deeply. Those who write books with a strapline When Genres Collide (see...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017

Allan Holdsworth: Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection

Jeffrey Ocheltree | Jeff Berlin | Kirk Covington | Skuli Sverrisson | Alan Pasqua | Allan Holdsworth | Naomi Star | Steve Hunt | Gary Novak | Billy Childs

With 150 minutes plus of classic Holdsworth across 28 cuts, gnarly-bloke fans could hardly ask for more, right? Well this...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017

Charlie Haden: Silence

Billy Higgins | Chet Baker | Enrico Pieranunzi | Charlie Haden

Perhaps not one of the finest moments in Charlie Haden's extensive catalogue. Not only does Haden's instrument often appear to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2017

David Murray Octet: Home

Eduardo Delgado Lopez | Caspar Brötzmann | Danny Longman

American record labels had virtually given up on the jazz avant-garde by the time the second wave of ‘new wavers’...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2020

Cakewalk: Ishihara

Imagine rock bands Sonic Youth and Joy Division thrashing it out at an avant-improv jam and you might have some...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Claire Daly Quintet: 2648 West Grand Boulevard

Jerome Harris | Mary Ann McSweeney | Steve Hudson | Peter Grant | Claire Daly

Arriving as a seeming response to our March reader's letter about Motown, this album (though doubtless recorded earlier) refers in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2017

Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II Emerging Worlds

Tomeka Reid | Jovia Armstrong | Nicole Mitchell | Renee Baker | Alex Wing | Avery R Young | Tatsu Aoki | Kojiro Umezaki

Mitchell's work over the past decade has been of a consistently high standard, but she excels herself on this new...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2017

Ibrahim Electric: The Marathon Concert

Denmark's popularly acclaimed Hammond B3 jam band must be a ft bunch of lads, selecting 20 tracks from an epic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017