Eraldo Bernocchi/Prakash Sontakke: Invisible Strings

Mixing up Hindustani classical music with Brian Eno-inspired ambient rock is the basis of this trippy sounding set of originals...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Eero Koivistoinen & UMO Jazz Orchestra: Artic Blues

Eero Koivistoinen | UMO Jazz Orchestra

Eero Koivistoinen (b. 1946) is truly a legend in Finnish jazz – or as the current terminology would have it,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Various Artists: Feeling Good: Funk Soul and Deep Jazz Gems: The Sound of Bob Shad

A good soul-infected anthology of 1970s work from Shad's much-sampled Mainstream label, somewhat of its time, but featuring Blue Mitchell,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Deep Memory

Barry Guy | Marilyn Crispell | Paul Lytton

Barry Guy's most recent music has taken a deeper dive inside a concept that has long provided Guy the composer,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2017

Milt Jackson: Sunfower/Goodbye

Freddie Hubbard | Hubert Laws | Herbie Hancock | Steve Gadd | Ralph McDonald | Billy Cobham | Milt Jackson | Ron Carter | Cedar Walton

Imperious in small groups such as MJQ, Jackson nonetheless fares well in the large orchestral setting that defined the output...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017

Eric Alexander: Second Impressions

Joe Farnsworth | Eric Alexander | Bob Cranshaw | Harold Mabern

You've got to hand it to him. Eric Alexander just gets better and better… and better still. He is arguably...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2017

Toots Thielemans: Four Classic Albums

Four of Toots' best-known albums display his talents on guitar and harmonica, with, thankfully, a minimum of whistling. The highlight...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Refections in Cosmo

Hans Magnus Ryan | Kjetil Møster | Ståle Storløkken | Thomas Strønen

Rage as we will about Brexit, you can't deny the efficacy of the ‘Norwegian model’ when it comes to creating...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2017

Mose Allison: I'm Not Talkin'

Mose Allison

I'm Not Talkin' brings together no less than 24 tracks from the late, great Mississippi-born pianist, vocalist, trumpeter, composer and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2017

Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954

Barney Kessel | Art Kile | Pete Jolly

Here's a discovery. The Jazz Mill club was in Phoenix, Arizona, but only lasted for a year, bringing in top...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017