Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi: Strength & Power

Balazs Pandi | Jamie Saft | Roswell Rudd | Trevor Dunn

Some of the best moments on Strength & Power sound like a group of musicians falling down the stairs. These...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: April/2016

Album Interview: Phronesis: Parallax

Jasper Høiby | Anton Eger | Ivo Neame

Ten years into their life as an increasingly tight-knit trio and it’s perhaps no surprise that Phronesis have named their...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: April/2016

Renee Rosnes: Written In The Rocks

Steve Nelson | Peter Washington | Steve Wilson | Renee Rosnes | Bill Stewart

It’s 30 years already since Canadian-born Rosnes descended on the New York scene, making an immediate impact with, among others,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Passages

A 43-year-old orchestra led by director and founder Mike Harvey dedicate their otherworldly ‘Spaceways’ to Sun Ra, a major influential...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Earl Hines: Piano Genius at Work

Earl Watkins | Don McDonald | Darnell Howard | Bill English | Sid Catlett | Joe Watkins | Marty Marsala | Jack Teagarden | Muggsy Spanier | Pops Foster

This 7CD box with bonus DVD is a considerable improvement on the same label’s Billy Strayhorn collection, which missed several...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2016

Nils Landgren with Janis Siegel: Some Other Time: A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein

Wolfgang Haffner | Dieter Ilg | Nils Landgren | Jan Lundgren | Bochumer Symphoniker | Janis Siegel

Landgren may have cornered the market on Scandinavian funk, but his excursions into The Great American Songbook are more enjoyable....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016

Ronnie Cuber: Cuber Libre

Albert Heath | Ronnie Cuber | Sam Jones | Barry Harris

Senor Cuber has been around for some time now and has a chest full of campaign medals to his credit...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: a cosmic rhythm with each stroke

Wadada Leo Smith | Vijay Iyer

Their long-running musical relationship has been cemented by Iyer’s membership of Smith’s excellent Golden Quartet and now the two come...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Jaimeo Brown Transcendence: Work Songs

Marcia Miget | Falu | Jaleel Shaw | Marisha Rodriguez | Brandon McCune | Big Yuki | Cadence Brown | Jaimeo Brown | James Francies | Gee’s Bend Quilters

The fact that Brown has taken the title of his previous album Transcendence as the name of this group, or...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

J Peter Schwalm: The Beauty of Disaster

This Frankfurt-born composer has Brian Eno on his impressive CV and reveals an eerily simmering soundworld influenced by Ligeti, Bitches...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016