Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hông Quang: Hà Nôi Duo

Stéphane Edouard | Paolo Fresu | Alex Tran | Mieko Miyazaki | Prabhu Edouard | Ngô Hông Quang | Nguyên Lê

I had the pleasure of interviewing Lê before a live audience at a jazz festival in Germany a few years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Silvano Monasterios: Partly Sunny

The Venezuelan-American pianist-composer's second recording adds horns from Anat Cohen and Troy Roberts to an unadventurous straightahead recording with roots...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Mary Ann McCall: Complete Recordings 1950-59

Vocalist for Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman in the swing era, this shows latterday McCall with Artie Shaw, Charlie Ventura,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017

Mohamed Abozekry: Karkade

This Egyptian oud virtuoso's acoustic roots group conjures up an intimately appealing mix of Sufist dervishes, improvisation, classical and folk...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Fiium Shaarrk: We Are Astonishingly Lifelike

Experimental but intriguing and accessible contemporary percussion-electronica by a trio (Rudi Fischerlehner/Maurizio Ravalico/Isambard Khroustaliov) that crosses the likes of Varèse...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Daymé Arocena: Cubafonia

Dayme Arocena

The strum of a tres. A crash of cymbals. Swelling horns. Spoken-word incantations. A revving rhythm section, soaring massed-voice choir...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2017

Al Caiola: High Strung/Cleopatra and All That Jazz

A top 1950s and 1960s session guitarist, Caiola is surrounded by five guitars on one album and a rather gimmicky...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017

The Tab Nerdley Trio: Lemon Bopsicle

Eli Font | Tab Nerdley | Boscombe Manningtree

This West Coast trio had a very short life span – around six days – before leader Tab Nerdley choked...

Reviewed by J.J. Geiger in issue: April/2017

Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr: Landed in Brooklyn

Donny McCaslin | Nate Wood | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Roman Wasserfuhr | Julian Wasserfuhr

Initially recording for ACT's ‘Young German Jazz’ series in 2006 with Remember Chet, this sibling union has gone on to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

The Necks: Unfold

Lloyd Swanton | Chris Abrahams | Tony Buck

As a band that has plotted its own singular course for several decades there is a certain expectation that comes...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2017