Letizia Gambi: Blue Monday

Lenny White | Letizia Gambi | Donald Vega | Ron Carter | Helen Sung

This follow-up album from the Neapolitan vocalist Letizia Gambi picks up where her striking 2012 debut, Introducing Letizia Gambi, left...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2016

Steve Kuhn Trio: At This Time…

Steve Kuhn | Joey Baron | Steve Swallow

Steve Kuhn was once a pupil of Madame Margaret Chaloff, a legend in Boston in the 1950s, 60s and early...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2016

Angelika Niescier/Florian Weber: NYC Five

Cologne residents saxophonist Niescier and pianist Weber take an energetic leftfield route via the Brooklyn scene alongside the superb trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Cortijo: 1969-71 The Ansonia Years

If authentic Puerto Rican latin music is your thing, it doesn't come much more authentic than this, though its connection...

Reviewed by Ayn Shipton in issue: June/2016

Atlantic Jazz Ensemble: Oceanic Suite

Founded in 2013 by members of the Souljazz Orchestra, this is Canada's version of British trumpeter Matthew Halsall's retro spiritual...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Fire! Orchestra: Ritual

Mats Äleklint | Andreas Werliin | Susana Santos Silva | Mads Forsby | Niklas Barnö | Sofia Jernberg | Anna Högberg | Martin Hederos | Mariam Wallentin | Per Äke Holmlander

Fire! Orchestra may be rocking a new, slim-line configuration of just 21 members (reduced from over 30), but their third...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016

Jason Rebello: Held

Jason Rebello

Who better than the man himself to describe his solo album. “As you get older you get interested in different...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016

Fapy Lafertin: Swing Guitar/Hungaria

The best of all the European Django- style guitarists in a comfortable UK- based setting, this is an essential album...

Reviewed by Ayn Shipton in issue: June/2016

Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: Nihil Novi

Chris Dave | Pino Palladino | Kyle Miles | Robert Glasper | Chris Bruce | Keyon Harrold | Charles Haynes | James Francies | Jean Baylor | Meshell Ndegeocello

Reeds man Strickland has always been a soulful player, but this is the album where he lays down soulful jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Noisy Mnoriy: Wrong is Right

Zurich-based saxophonist and regular Intakt label recording artist Omri Ziegele's free jazz collective quartet (featuring the maverick New York trombonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016