Pavillon: Strong Tea

Jeremy Price | Sarah Williams | Percy Pursglove | Martin Speake | Andy Panayi | Hans Koller | Mick Foster | Steve Fishwick | Robbie Robson | Gene Calderazzo

Jim Rattigan, who leads the A-list cast of experienced Brit-based jazzers that make up Pavillon, was a former principal French...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

John Ellis: Evolution: Seeds and Dreams

Jessica Macdonald | Pete Turner | Sam Healey | John Ellis | John Haycock | Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh | Jason Singh | Rick Weedon | Ellie Smith | Helena Jane Summerfield

This is a new twist on the spiritual jazz which underpins Matthew Halsall's Gondwana Records. A founder member of The...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017

Sarah Vaughan: Swingin' Easy/At Mister Kelly's

Jimmy Jones | Wyatt Ruther | Fats Heard | Richard Davis | Sarah Vaughan | John Malachi | Roy Haynes | Joe Benjamin

This superb twofer presents two complete original albums, Swingin' Easy and At Mister Kelly's, in which Vaughan is backed solely...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2017

John Butcher/Thomas Lehn/Matthew Shipp: Tangle

Matthew Shipp | Thomas Lehn | John Butcher

Two sessions from Butcher that could not be more contrasting. The duo with Solberg takes an approach to the horn-drums...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017

Karl Seglem: Nordic Balm

This one does what is says on the tin, with the Scandi folk-based improvising saxophonist/goat horn specialist playing a warm,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Various Artists: Sergey Kuryokhin – The Spirit Lives

Alexei Aigui | Sergey Letov | Andrey Goncharov | Arkady Marto | Denis Kalinsky | Vladamir Zharko | Vladimir Volkov | Sergey Nikolsky | Ekaterina Kichiginia | Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky

We might know him as a jazz musician, but Sergey Kuryokhin, who died in 1996, was known in Russia for...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2017

John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg: So Beautiful It Starts To Rain

John Butcher | Ståle Liavik Solberg

Two sessions from Butcher that could not be more contrasting. The duo with Solberg takes an approach to the horn-drums...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017

Sun Ra: Fate In A Pleasant Mood + Bad And Beautiful

Ronnie Boykins | Thomas ‘Bugs’ Hunter | Nate Pryor | Sun Ra | George Hudson | Marshall Allen | Pat Patrick | William Cohran | Jon Hardy | John Gilmore

Three more additions to Sun Ra's already prolific and mysterious discography, all of which showcase certain aspects of his inspirational...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2017

Franklin Kiermyer: Closer To The Sun

This is a drummer and Brooklyn-based quartet indebted to jazz with an overtly spiritual, meditative element, among the major references...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

The Core Trio: Live featuring Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp | Thomas Helton | Seth Paynter | Joe Hertenstein

Like Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas' Black Top, The Core Trio – who operate out of Texas – always perform...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2017