Fat-Suit: Atlas

Alice Allen | Sarah Leonard | Izzie Pendlebury | Mhairi Marwick | Glynn Forrest | Christine Anderson | Liam Shortall | Utsav Lal | Phil Hague | Scott Murphy

As a late-night Glasgow Jazz Festival fixture, Fat-Suit seemed a simple enough proposition at first: a funk big band, built...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2016

Neil Cowley Trio: Spacebound Apes

Neil Cowley | Evan Jenkin | Leo Abrahams | Rex Horan

All credit to Cowley for producing an album that works on many levels: you can buy into the concept –...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Gary Lucas: Fleischerei

A maverick guitarist and former Captain Beefheart/Jeff Beck sideman, Gary Lucas takes on the songs from Max Fleicher's Betty Boop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Dick Oatts/Mats Holmquist New York Jazz Orchestra: A Tribute To Herbie +1

Mats Holmquist | Robert Nordmark | Steen Nikolaj Hansen | John Mosca | Nick Marchione | Frank Basile | Dick Oatts | John Riley | Paul Meyers | Adam Birnbaum

This album has three distinctive things going for it, two obvious, one less so. First there is the band, with...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2016

John Scofield: Country For Old Men

John Scofield | Steve Swallow | Bill Stewart | Larry Goldings

I cannot begin to comprehend how you deal with the death of a son. For over two years the Scofield...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Stephen Crump's Rhombal: Rhombal

Tyshawn Sorey | Adam O’Farrill | Ellery Eskelin | Stephen Crump

Sometimes discarding a harmonic instrument leads to self-indulgence, but on this bass-led quartet album, it has clearly concentrated the mind....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2016

Various Artists: The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann

Kurt Graunke | Paul Weston | Bernard Herrmann

We should at this point consider Bernard Herrmann a pioneer of modern music as well as 20th century film composition....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Jason Sharp: A Boat Upon its Blood

With music centred on slowly evolving Ligeti-like, throbbing textural blocks of sound, this Montreal saxophonist draws from both acoustic and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Count Basie/Lester Young: Classic 1936-47 Count Basie and Lester Young Studio Sessions

Harry Edison | Johnny Otis | Slam Stewart | Irving Ashby | Benny Morton | Carl Smith | Red Callender | Johnny Guarnieri | Una Mae Carlisle | Sid Catlett

The early Basie band brought new levels of blues feeling and informality to the big-band scene. In addition, the leader's...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016

Pablo Held Trio: Lineage

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Lineage is the eighth album in as many years from 29-year-old German pianist Pablo Held and his regular collaborators, bassist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2016