Jean-Luc Ponty: Original Album Series Vol 2

Ralphe Armstrong | Randy Jackson | Mark Craney | Casey Scheurell | Jamie Glaser | Joaquin Lievano | Chris Rhyne | Daryl Stuermer | Allan Zavod | Jean-Luc Ponty

By 1979 a decade had passed since Ponty and Zappa had joined forces for King Kong: by now Ponty was...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016

Laura Perlman: Precious Moments

Laura Perlman is a film editor turned jazz singer and she gives a pretty good account of herself on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

The Stryker/Slagle Band (Expanded): Routes

Saxophonist Steve Slagle is a leading member of the Mingus Big Band and co-leads this post-bop big band with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance

Alan Ferber | Tim Berne | Ralph Alessi | Mark Helias | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Shane Endsley | Loren Stillman | Jeff Nelson | Kirk Knuffke

Formanek may be known primarily through his long running association with Tim Berne but he has been a bandleader of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Anat Fort Trio: Birdwatching

The Israeli pianist's third chamber jazz trio CD on the Munich label, the highly regarded Italian reedsman Gianluigi Trovesi guests...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Mack Avenue Superband: Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival 2015

Tia Fuller | Gary Burton | Christian McBride | Carl Allen | Kirk Whalum | Freddie Hendrix | Christian Sands

The Mack Avenue label is old school in a good way. For a start it embraces the players who, for...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2016

David Linx/Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Brel

Brussels Jazz Orchestra | David Linx

Following their previous recordings together, Changing Faces (2007) and A Different Porgy and Another Bess (2012), David Linx and the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2016

Dave Scott: Brooklyn Aura

The leftfield bassist John Hebert's throbbing lines are at the core of trumpeter-composer Dave Scott's enthralling quintet that also includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Tim Garland: One

Dionne Bennett | Asaf Sirkis | Jason Rebello | Hossam Ramzy | Tim Garland | Ant Law

A new group and a new beginning for Tim Garland in what is the finest album by a British jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016

Patrick Cornelius: While We're Still Young

Patrick Cornelius | Nick Vayenas | John Ellis | Gerald Clayton | Miles Ozaki | Jason Palmer | Peter Slavov | Kendrick Scott

US alto-saxophonist Cornelius is a semi-regular visitor to Britain, often at the behest of bassist Mike Janisch and it’s on...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2016