Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VI: Celtic Roots

Eric Bibb | Olle Linder | Knut Reiersrud | Aly Bain | Fraser Fifield | Ale Möller | Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen

Just how ‘jazz’ is this new installment in ACT's Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic series? A soprano sax and a trumpet...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2016

Ed Palermo Big Band: One Child Left Behind

Bob Quaranta | Ted Kooshian | Mike Boschen | Bruce McDaniel | Ben Kono | Mike James | Charley Gordon | Napoleon Murphy Brock | Katie Jacoby | Candy Zappa

Don't yah just love our post-modern age? There's a version here of Neil Young's ‘Harvest Moon’ re-pitched with a Nelson...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Brian Charette: Once & Future

Will Bernard | Brian Charette | Steve Fidyk

Should the Hammond organ need an unofficial professor that title could easily prefix the name of Brian Charette. The New...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2016

Le Rex: Wild Man

Marc Unternährer | Marc Stucki | Andreas Tschopp | Benedikt Reising | Rico Baumann

Actually from Switzerland, brass-heavy quartet La Rex have been so inspired by a recent tour on the other side of...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2016

Scott Tixier: Cosmic Adventure

It's become unusual to hear improvising jazz fiddle, so bravo to Scott Tixier who's from the Jean Luc Ponty school...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Allen Toussaint: American Tunes

David Piltch | Bill Frisell | Jay Bellerose | Allen Toussaint | Charles Lloyd | Greg Leisz

It would be difficult to imagine a more fitting epitaph than Allen Toussaint's American Tunes. Presenting a delightful conspectus of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2016

Undiscovered Television: Gypsy in a High Rise

The UK-based eight-string guitarist/composer Andy Lale's Undiscovered Television have a pleasant airy sound drawn from gypsy jazz, neo-classical chamber music,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Rez Abbasi & Junction: Behind The Vibration

Kenny Grohowski | Rez Abbasi | Ben Stivers | Mark Shim

Abbasi's never lacked the courage to explore different musics, so the name of his new band, Junction, is most apt...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Charlie Rouse: Yeah!

Peck Morrison | Dave Bailey | Gildo Mahones | Charlie Rouse | Billy Gardner | Reggie Workman | Art Taylor

For all you stargazers and UFO watchers out there scanning the heavens you might be interested to know that, in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2016

Naima: Bye

Enrique Ruiz | Luis Torregrosa | Rafael Ramos Sania

Let's hear it for Naima. This acoustic piano trio from Valencia has developed its own distinctive voice, and shaded by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016