Walt Weiskopf: The Way You Say It

A Bird riffin’ tenor saxophonist heads an unusual quartet line up of vibes, organ and drums that focuses the percussive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch

Steve Noble | Sebastian Lexer

A pair of live dealings from two prodigious parameter-breakers captured at that perennial sanctuary of the awkward and abstruse, Cafe...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2016

Grencsó Open Collective with Rudi Mahall: Marginal Music/Rétegzene

With the helping hand of esteemed German free jazz clarinettist Rudi Mahall, leader/reedsman/composer István Grencsó's Hungarian sextet brew up a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Tommaso Starace: From A Distant Past

Michele Di Toro | Tommaso Starace

Italian saxophonist Starace is a welcome presence on our local scene and perhaps best known for his boppish small groups....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016

Joel Weiskopf: Where Angels Fear to Tread

This pianist-composer from New York's Syracuse recharges some of the Blue Note era Herbie/Wayne influenced compositions he wrote in the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Ran Blake: Chabrol Noir

The 80-year-old pianist-composer draws fascinatingly from the cinematic noir of French New wave director Claude Chabrol, mixing lyrically abstract jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

James White & The Blacks: Off White

Patrick Geoffrois | Pat Plac | Bruce Purce | Ray Mantila | James Chance | Ralph Rolle | Chris Cunningham | Paul Colin | Bob Quine | Fred Wells

Though he's forever associated with New York's post-punk No Wave scene, James Chance really just wanted to be a jazzer....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2016

Bill O'Connell and the Latin Jazz All-Stars: Heart Beat

O'Connell, a veteran pianist and former arranger for Mongo Santamaria among others, struts his latin stuff with a close knit...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Various: Jazz At The Philharmonic: Complete Live In Stockholm 1960

Dizzy Gillespie | Leo Wright | J.J. Johnson | Stan Getz | Lalo Schifrin | Jo Jones | Sam Jones | Victor Feldman | Chuck Lampkin | Art Davis

It's reboot time at Chez Solar who have decided to ditch the flimsy card sleeve and bundle the original three...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2016

En Bas Quartet

Assembled by the double bassist Seth Bennett, this experimental ‘low’ string quartet from the North of England performs an absorbing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016