US4: My Scandinavian Blues (A Tribute to Horace Parlan)

Tomas Franck | Sinne Eeg | Adam Nussbaum | Horace Parlan | Jimmi Roger Pedersen | Thomas Clausen

This international venture, recorded in Denmark and filmed by a German company, celebrates the music of Horace Parlan. The colleague...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016

EST Symphony

Magnus Öström | Johan Lindström | Verneri Pohjola | Marius Neset | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Dan Berglund | Iiro Rantala | Hans Ek

It would have been Esbjörn Svensson's next project.Classically trained at Stockholm's Royal College of Music, the work of Bach, Mozart,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016

Sarah Jane Morris/Antonio Forcione: Compared To What

Sarah Jane Morris | Antonio Forcione

While there are a number of impressive, adroitly reworked cover versions on this fabulous album from vocalist Sarah Jane Morris...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2016

King Crimson: Beat

Adrian Belew | Tony Levin | Robert Fripp | Bill Bruford

As Bill Bruford wryly recalled with this correspondent, Crimson will be forever beholden to Belew for providing what the band's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2016

Milt Jackson: Sings with Enrico Intra Group

Previously reviewed in June 2014, this album shows Milt as vocalist, but although proud of his singing, the recorded proof...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2016

Hadley Caliman: Projecting/Celebration

These two albums by this little-known West Coast tenorist are his finest work, of which the second, a quartet with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2016

Nils Petter Molvær: Buoyancy

Geir Sundstøl | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Erland Dahlen | Jo Berger Myhre

Molvær's latest variation on Nordic fusion is warmly inviting. The seasoned interplay of his quartet gives even electronics and effects...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2016

Sonny Grey: And his Orchestra in Concert

Barely known in the UK, trumpeter Sonny Grey was an Alpha Boys’ School contemporary of Joe Harriott's who settled in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2016

Pentangle: Finale

John Renbourn | Danny Thompson | Terry Cox | Bert Jansch | Jacqui McShee

Finale – An Evening with Pentangle is actually a ‘composite evening’ compiled from eight dates (and venues) from the folk-jazz...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: November/2016

Simon Nabatov Trio: Picking Order

Simon Nabatov | Stefan Schönegg | Dominik Mahning

The Russian pianist may be best known for his excellent New York trio with bassist Mark Helias and drummer Tom...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2016