Frank Butler: The Stepper

Jack Montrose | Dolo Coker | Frank Butler | Monty Budwig

Xanadu’s chronicle of mid 1970s West coast jazz continues apace and this is an interesting new installment. As has been...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Kathrine Windfield Big Band: Aircraft

Danish pianist-composer Kathrine Windfield fronts a high-spirited contemporary swinging Euro jazz ensemble with Cannonball Adderley, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Alex Webb & The Copasetics: Call Me Lucky

Sophie Alloway | Denys Baptiste | Andy Chapman | Miles Danso | Alex Webb | Winston Rollins | Nathaniel Facey | Freddie Gavila

An extremely classy calling card for his songwriting talents, pianist Alex Webb’s first album under his own name has clearly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2016

Mala Wadlron: Deep Resonance

A NYC resident singer songwriter with a legendary jazz father fronts a band of varied instrumentation singing her own mediocre...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Bob Berg: New Birth

Bob Berg | Mike Richmond | Sam Figueroa | Tom Harrell | Cedar Walton | Al Foster

Bob Berg died in a traffic accident in 2002; he was 51. The shorthand view is that he was a...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: June/2016

Jeff Guthery: Black Paintings

A third-stream turn of the century inspired symphonic suite for orchestra and free jazz quartet led by drummer Jeff Guthery,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Ian Brighton: Now And Then

Philipp Wachsmann | Derek Bailey | Marcio Mattos | Nicky Heinen | Paul Brighton | Ian Brighton | Trevor Taylor | Frank Perry

Forty years. That’s one hell of a hiatus between albums, but evidently an iota in the erosion of the prevailing...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2016

Peter Edwards Trio: A Matter Of Instinct

Moses Boyd | Peter Edwards | Max Luthert

On the back of a well-received debut, a Parliamentary Jazz Award and extensive touring, Edwards returns with a sophomore effort...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Large Unit: Ana

Mats Äleklint | Klaus Holm | Paal Nilssen-Love | Paulinho Bicolor | Per Äke Holmlander | Andreas Wildhagen | Julie Kjær | Christian Meaas Svendsen | Ketil Gutvik | Jon Rune Strøm

Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love has always happily teetered between freedom and form. With The Thing, he’s as likely to be diving...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016

Tom Tallitsch: Gratitude

An Ohio native, the saxophonist Tom Tallitsch is in the lineage of current mainstream post-bop big tenors and here in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019