Matt Slocum: Trio Pacific Vol 1

A breezily intimate drummer-led trio featuring sax and guitar are content to create an atmosphere of sonics, but lack the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Wallace Roney: A Place in Time

Lenny White | Buster Williams | Ben Solomon | Wallace Roney | Patrice Rushen | Gary Bartz

Partly because there are so many exciting young (ish) trumpet players on the scene and partly because, for whatever reason,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

Kjetil Jerve: New York Improvisations

Explorative and fairly impenetrable standard interpretations and originals by a Norwegian pianist in trio with Drew Gress and saxophonist Jimmy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Escape Hatch featuring Julian Argüelles: Roots of Unity

Dave Hamblett | Andrea Di Biase | Julian Argüelles | Ivo Neame

The Loose Tubes saxophonist Julian Argüelles and Phronesis pianist Ivo Neame are among the most influential figures of their respective...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Lee Konitz: Frescalalto

Kenny Washington | Lee Konitz | Peter Washington | Kenny Barron

Konitz, who will turn 90 next October, continues to plough a lonely furrow. Despite his occasional stylistic influence on such...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017

Phil France: The Swimmer

Richard Spaven | Patrick Carpenter | Phil Kay | Vincent Helbers | Stuart McCallum | Naomi Koop | Semay Wu | Adam Robinson | Susannah Simmons | Phil France

Soundtracks for unmade films were a cliché even before Phil France joined the Cinematic Orchestra 20 years ago. Still, he...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2017

Paul Dunmall Quintet: The Dreamtime Suite

Percy Pursglove | Dave Kane | Steve Tromans | Paul Dunmall | Hamid Drake

The six sections of Paul Dunmall's The Dreamtime Suite unfold without break from the spritely opening title track to the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2017

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

Chris Thile | Brad Mehldau

The first recorded fruits of this initially unexpected and seemingly improbable but by now well-established collaboration arrive over five years...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2017

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Two Faced

David Weiss | Myron Walden | Kush Abadey | Matt Clohesy | Nir Felder | JD Allen | Travis Reuter | Ben Eunson

Regular readers will remember the high regard with which this writer holds trumpeter/composer/arranger David Weiss, currently heavily involved with The...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

The Three Sounds Featuring Gene Harris: Groovin' Hard – Live At The Penthouse 1964-1968

Gene Harris | Carl Burnett | Andy Simpkins | Bill Dowdy | Kalil Madi

Groovin' Hard is a most appropriate title for this welcome new CD and LP from premium soul-jazz club combo The...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2017