Led Bib: Umbrella Weather

Liran Donin | Chris Williams | Pete Grogan | Toby McLaren | Mark Holub

The Vienna sessions for Led Bib's sixth studio album were a potential last stand for a band questioning their future....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017

Giovanni Guidi/Gianluca Petrella/Louis Sclavis/Gerald Cleaver: Ida Lupino

Giovanni Guidi | Gianluca Petrella | Louis Sclavis | Gerald Cleaver

Who remembers actor-singer-director Ida Lupino now? A fair number of jazz fans may know of her principally through Carla Bley's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2017

BassDrumBone: The Long Road

Gerry Hemingway | Mark Helias | Jason Moran | Ray Anderson | Joe Lovano

Bassist Mark Helias, drummer Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson have been working as a free-flowing jazz collective since 1977...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2017

Ingrid & Christine Jensen: Infinitude

There's an impressively fluid understanding between the Canadian Jensen sisters in atmospheric, graceful folk-jazz dialogue alongside a quintet that features...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Louis Smith: The Legendary 1957-59 Studio Sessions

Doug Watkins | Booker Little | Frank Strozier | Paul Chambers | Sonny Clark | George Coleman | Charlie Rouse | Cannonball Adderley | Calvin Newborn | Duke Jordan

So let's hear it one more time for the late Tom Wilson (1931-1978) – a true visionary who produced numerous...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2017

Claudio Filippini: Overflying

Claudio Filippini

There have been few more startling debuts by a young pianist than Filippini's Love Is The Thing… And The Blues...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines

Tyshawn Sorey | Ingrid Laubrock | Miya Masaoka | Sam Pluta | Peter Evans | Craig Taborn | Dan Peck

Ingrid Laubrock's various recordings as leader for the Swiss Label Intakt have positioned her at the hub of Brooklyn's experimental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Tom Harrell: Something Gold, Something Blue

Ugonna Okegwo | Jonathan Blake | Charles Altura | Tom Harrell | Ambrose Akinmusire | Omer Avital

An interesting trumpet pairing of one of jazz's older guard (not yet ‘old’, it should be said) in Tom Harrell...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Azymuth: Fênix

Daniel Maunik | Kiko Continentino | Robertina Silva | Alex Malheiros | Ivan Conti

Brazilian power trio Azymuth have been doing their funky, jazzy, crazy samba doido thing for five decades. One of their...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2017

Louis Armstrong All Stars: Stuttgart 1959

It seems almost every All Stars concert was being recorded at this time. This is better-then-average, with the Trummy and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017