Chippendale Gustafsson Pupillo: Melt

Massimo Pupillo | Mats Gustafsson | Brian Chippendale

There was never any doubt that this was going to be a punisher. With The Thing and Fire!, and through...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2016

Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Didier Lockwood | John Etheridge | Tony Williams | Jean-Michel Kajdan | Francis Lockwood | Gordon Beck

A London resident since 2004, this is the Portuguese guitarist's second recording for quintet and features an assertive sax duo...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Colin Stetson: Sorrow

Subtitled ‘A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd symphony’, this is the sonically stratospheric multi-reeds colossus Colin Stetson's expressive contemporary music remake...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Florian Hoefner Group: Luminosity

This German-born pianist relocated from New York to Canada's Newfoundland as creative stimulant for this tranquil, contemporary post– bop recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Tonbruket: Forevergreens

Johan Lindstrom | Per Texas Johansson | Ane Brun | Anna Hogberg | Dan Berglund | Martin Holm | Andreas Werliin | Martin Hederos

Dan Berglund's post-prog ensemble Tonbruket have established their signature of spacey atmospherics and sonic effects-inflected minimalist prog over two recordings...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Aparat

Aparat, the multi-keyboard led duo of ex-Rip Rig and Panic founder Mark Springer and Penguin Café frontman Arthur Jeffes, merge...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Phil Woods: Warm Woods

This is 1957 Woods, in thrall to Bird but with overtones of Hodges, working mainly through standards (including two takes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Joachim Kühn New Trio: Beauty & Truth

Chris Jennings | Joachim Kühn | Eric Schaefer

This absorbing album by German jazz great Joachim Kühn introduces a new trio with musicians half his age – Chris...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

Bob James & Nathan East: The New Cool

Bob James

Like the proverbial horse and carriage, James and East go together like the best of marriages. It could of course...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2016

Louis Armstrong: Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven

Fred Robinson | Earl Hines | Victoria Spivey | Baby Dodds | Zutty Singleton | Pete Briggs | Erskine Tate | Jimmy Bertrand | Lil Hardin Armstrong | Hociel Thomas

The last time I reviewed most of this music was when these ground– breaking small-group sessions for OKeh were combined...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2016