Naqsh Duo (Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi): Narrante

Golfam Khayam | Mona Matbou Riahi

Guitar and clarinet: now there's a great jazz pairing. Didn't bebop – sort of – come out of Charlie Christian...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

New Zion with Cyro: Sunshine Seas

Multi-keyboardist and Zorn acolyte Jamie Saft's ace trippy dub-jazz project features Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista and benefits from the latter's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Red Trio & John Butcher: Summer Skyshift

Hermani Faustino | John Butcher | Rodrigo Pinheiro | Gabriel Ferrandini

Young Portuguese unit, Red Trio, take the essential energies and instrumentation of a progressive piano trio and unhitch them from...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016

The Breath: Carry Your Kin

The Irish singer-songwriter Rioghnach Connolly heads a Mancunian supergroup with jazz cred including Cinematic Orchestra guitarist Stuart McCallum and drummer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Al Caiola: Deep In A Dream/Serenade in Blue

A consummately-skilled guitarist who ought to be better known, Caiola was a NY session player, who excelled in jazz before...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Heavy Beauty: Propaganda

An Estonian quartet, featuring leading Tallinn-based guitarist Jaak Sooäär, put their foot firmly on the pedal in a potent mixture...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos V

Bill McHenry | Ben Monder | Richard Nany | Taylor Haskins | Sandro Tomasi | Jeff Ballard | Diego Urcola | Chris Cheek | Fernando Hiergo | Guillermo Klein

The pianist Guillermo Klein and many of his peers on this new recording hail from the New York and Boston...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Annette Warren: There's A Man In My Life

A singer now barely remembered, Warren ghosted film actresses' voices and sang on LA sessions – this collects a lot...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

The Fred Hersch Trio: Sunday Night at the Vanguard

John Hébert | Eric McPherson | Fred Hersch

Jazz is a spontaneous, ephemeral thing: a musical celebration of in-the-momentness, in significant part improvised on the wing. So it's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

Chris Cheek: Saturday Songs

Jaume Llombard | Jorge Rossy | Steve Cardenas | Chris Cheek | David Soler

Admired in the UK by younger generations of saxophonists such as Adam Waldmann and guitarist Hannes Riepler (who recently partnered...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016