Christine Tobin: Pelt

Liam Noble | Richard Jones | Phil Robson | Simon Lea | Gareth Lockrane | Dave Whitford | Christine Tobin | Kate Shortt

Referencing blues, folk, jazz and Americana, singer, songwriter and composer Christine Tobin's Pelt completes a dazzling quadriptych of songbook albums...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Nat Birchall: Creation

Michael Bardon | Adam Fairhall | Johnny Hunter | Nat Birchall | Andy Hay

Has any Coltrane disciple trodden his chosen path so faithfully in recent years? The Manchester tenor/soprano man might have come...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

NHØP & Mulgrew Miller: The Duo – Live!

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Mulgrew Miller

The two giants, who each failed to make their 60th birthday, apparently first met in January 1999 when Niels-Henning was...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Chet Baker: Live In London

Jim Richardson | Tony Mann | Chet Baker | John Horler

When Baker came to London to play a week-long engagement at the much-missed Canteen venue way back in 1983, Messrs...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Soweto Kinch: Nonagram

Ruben James | Gregory Hutchinson | Nick Jurd | Soweto Kinch

Kinch's 2014 The Legend Of Mike Smith was predicated on the seven deadly sins and this latest offering from the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: 2016: EPs

A Duracell battery-operated jazz group Big Five Chord, led by guitarist Jon Lundbom and featuring gymnastic alto saxman Jon Irabagon,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Grant Green: Joe's Blues

Grant Green | Milt Hinton | Billy Butler | Osie Johnson | Grady Tate | Les Spann | Kenny Burrell | Wild Bill Davis | Mundell Lowe | Johnny Hodges

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Moon Hooch: Red Sky

James Muschler | Wenzl McGowen | Michael Wilbur

Moon Hooch's gigs say a lot about jazz in Britain's broadening horizons. They symbolise the music's border police standing down,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Andrew Cyrille: A Declaration Of Musical Independence

Andrew Cyrille | Richard Teitelbaum | Bill Frisell | Ben Street

Five years after his excellent TUM release Route De Freres drum legend Cyrille makes his ECM debut with an album...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Slowly Rolling Camera: All Things

Simon Kodurand | Gareth Roberts | Dionne Bennett | David Brodowski | Laura Jurd | Ilona Bondar | Victoria Stapleton | Elliot Bennett | Sarah Davison | Dave Stapleton

This is modern soul with an epic, urgent sound, built on the axis of Dionne Bennett and Dave Stapleton's arrangements....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017