Angus Bayley: Scrapbook

Mentored by the classical-influenced Brit pianist Richard Fairhurst, this 27-year-old Yorkshire-born pianist is gently persuasive as a composer of pastoral...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Raoul Bjorkenheim eCsTaSy: Out of the Blue

Kathy Morton | Lynne Morrow | Peter Gordon | Jane Sharp | Gene Tyranny | Patrice Manget | Steve Bartek | Maggie Payne

Bursting out of the Helsinki avant-jazz scene, the guitarist Bjorkenheim and his band eCsTaSy has Pauli Lyytinen's Brötzmann-like feral tenor...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Dave Douglas: Dark Territory

Mark Guiliana | Dave Douglas | Jonathan Maron | Shigeto

Douglas’ second album from his electronics-fuelled band confirms, as if confirmation were needed, the horn man's extraordinary vocabulary. Dark Territory...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness

Joshua Redman | Brad Mehldau

The influential contemporary pianist and saxophonist's musical relationship goes back to the early 1990s. It was then that a fledgling...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Ben Wendel: What We Bring

A founder member of the cult rocking electric groovers Kneebody, the saxophonist Ben Wendel releases his 15th album as leader...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Harold López-Nussa: El Viaje

Ruy Adrián López-Nussa | Ruy Francisco López-Nussa | Harold López-Nussa | Alune Wade | Dreiser Durruthy | Adel González | Mayquel González

It's not about the destination, it's about the journey – or at least it is in the case of Cuban...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2016

Roberto Fonseca: ABUC

Carlos Calunga | Manuel ‘Guajiro’ Mirabal | Eliades Ochoa | Yandy Martinez Rodriguez | Dayme Arocena | Roberto Fonseca | Ramses ‘Dynamite’ Rodriguez | Rafael Lay Bravo | Trombone Shorty | Roberto Espinosa Rodriguez

Unguessable sea-changes are sweeping towards post-embargo Cuba. Fonseca remains loyal to its jazz legacy, though, on his eighth solo album....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2016

Peter Eldridge: Disappearing Day

Peter Eldridge, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and a key educator on the east coast, has a baritone vocal that thankfully steers...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Sammy Davis Jr: I've Gotta Be Me

Sammy Davis

Subtitled ‘The Very Best Of’, as well as being a fabulous actor, comedian and dancer, this 20-song collection reminds you...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2016

Black Art Jazz Collective: Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club

Wayne Escoffery | Jeremy Pelt | Vincente Archer | Johnathan Blake | Xavier Davis | James Burton III

BAJC is a very interesting band. And it's a working band, though finding it difficult to get many gigs, being...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2016