Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Dave King | Chris Speed | Chris Lightcap | Craig Taborn

Daylight Ghosts is one of the most evocative and tantalising titles in recent memory, but, more to the point, it...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Various Artists: Jazz Haunts & Magic Vaults The Lost Classics of Resonance Records Volume One

Bill Evans Trio | The Three Sounds | Larry Young | Wes Montgomery | Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

This anthology of 14 selections is taken from the Resonance label's growing catalogue and is an ideal way of getting...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2017

Joe McPhee & Raymond Boni: Live From The Magic City

Joe McPhee | Raymond Boni

Recorded six years apart, here's Joe McPhee in two radically different performance situations. With French saxophonist André Jaume he reinvents...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Orange Claw Hammer: Cooks the Beef

Cleverly subtitled Takes on the Music of Captain Beefheart, the vocalist-saxophonist Steve Kettley band's debut keeps it red raw with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Chris Abrahams: Climb

The Necks' pianist releases his first solo piano CD in a decade: an improvised set with the trance-like qualities and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Muhal Richard Abrams: Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note Vol. 2

Amina Claudine Myers | Roscoe Mitchell | Anthony Davis | Leonard Jones | Dave Holland | Steve McCall | Anthony Braxton | Leroy Jenkins | Malachi Favors | Henry Threadgill

While a number of leading contemporary pianists, from Jason Moran to Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer, are happy to cite...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Archie Shepp:

| Muhammad Ali | Bob Reid

While Shepp's decision to forgo his saxophones and voice and perform solely on piano may be the main talking point...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Morten Schantz: Godspeed

Anton Eger | Marius Neset | Morten Schantz

This is an important debut by Schantz on the Edition label, which is steadily making a name for itself across...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2017

Beth Hart: Fire on the Floor

The jazziest thing about this album by a well-established LA-born vocalist is the title of the opening track ‘Jazz Man’;...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Pete Oxley/Nicolas Meier: The Colours of Time: Duo and Quartet

Raph Mizraki | Nicolas Meier | Pete Oxley | Paul Cavaciuti

The Oxley-Meier axis grows ever richer. Following 2015's satisfying Chasing Tales, the pair toured and wrote and the results are...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2017