Hackney Colliery Band: Sharpener

Hackney Colliery Band puts an oblique English brass band twist on the funky New Orleans attitude of bands such as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Omar Puente: Best Foot Forward

Byron Wallen | Al McSween | Sizwe Nhlapo | Jimmy Martinez | Wilmer Sifonte | Oriente Lopez | Siphiwe Nkabinde | Denys Baptiste | Aaron Liddard | Landy Diaz

2009's From There To Here marked the arrival of the Cuban violin virtuoso on the British jazz scene, and this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016

Will Vinson: Perfectly Out of Place

Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Will Vinson | Mike Moreno | The Mivos Quartet | Jeff Ballard | Matt Penman | Jo Lawry | Jamey Haddad

From his superb debut, It's For You, through live recordings such as Live at Smalls, Vinson has maintained the golden...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2016

Forrest Westbrook: The Remarkable Forrest Westbrook: His Trio and Quartet

Remarkable is the word, as Fresh Sound brings back yet another artist from obscurity, in this case a dazzlingly inventive...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Kai Winding: Trombone Panorama

Years before Five-A-Slide or Bone Supremacy, Kai Winding was leading his multi-bone plus rhythm band, and here from 1956-57 with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Rob Garcia: Finding Love in an Oligarchy on a Dying Planet

A drummer's contemplations on the state of American politics effectively translated by a heavyweight Brooklyn contemporary jazz band with young...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Georgie Auld: Four Classic Albums

Two fine sessions and two rather dated ones from saxophonist Auld (above) makes for a lop-sided package, but the big...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Benn Clatworthy: What's Going On

Simon Thorpe | Benn Clatworthy | John Donaldson | Matt Home

The son of a sculptor and grandson of revue star Gertrude Lawrence, Clatworthy, born Hastings in 1955, leads something of...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016

Perhaps Contraption: Mud Belief

Squier Squier | Flick Switch | Mister Ricky | Jinny Hinge | Mickey Bones | Uncle Sshhh | Charly Jolly | Horace Sousatron | Emily Cunliffe

A multitude of genres are carefully cross-stitched by these pseudonymous musicians, from New Orleans marching bands to Coventry ska ones,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2016

John Coltrane: Mono

Steve Davis | Hank Jones | Percy Heath | Freddie Hubbard | Paul Chambers | Don Cherry | Connie Kay | John Coltrane | Charlie Haden | McCoy Tyner

This is a valuable collection, despite one obvious flaw which we'll come to in a sec. Although we've had the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016