Miles Davis: The Last Word: The Warner Bros. Years

John Beasley | Miles Davis | Lew Soloff | John Scofield | Michal Urbaniak | Billy ‘Spaceman’ Patterson | Bob Berg | Steve Thornton | Michel Legrand | John Bigham

If you’ve ever wanted an introduction to Miles’ late 1980s music, you could do worse than buy this 8CD boxed...

Reviewed by George Cole in issue: March/2016

Sopko/LasweII/Pridgen: Sopko/LasweIl/Pridgen

Thomas Pridgen | Hamir Atwal | Mike Sopko | Bill Laswell | Martin Dosh | Michael Lewis | Joshua Smith

This here’s some heavy, heavy monstrous reptilian fusion, with bass master Laswell carrying the genes over from his Last Exit...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2016

Gil Mellé: The Blue Note Years 1952-56

Not (as claimed here) the first white musician signed to Blue Note, saxophonist Mellé had a major impact on the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Robert Landfermann: Night Will Fall

The Cologne-based Pablo Held trio double bassist and a quartet, boasting the formidable presence of drummer Jim Black, explore an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Scott Jeppesen: Wonders

A rising star in the tough Joe Henderson- mentored tenor mould, this Los Angeles resident combines a mainstream fusion with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Hildegunn Øiseth: Time is Coming

Hildegunn Øiseth | Per Oddvar Johansen | Espen Berg | Mats Eilertsen

The 49-year-old Norwegian trumpeter, who spent the whole of the 1990s as a full-time member of Swedish Bohislan Big Band,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Shri: Just a Vibration

The ambitious bassist Shri Sriram mixes an unlikely fusion of Indian classical and traditional brass band music but it’s surprisingly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad: What Was Said

Jarle Vespestad | Tord Gustavsen | Simin Tander

This album is all about the subtlety of sound, which has been perfectly captured in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio. First are...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2016

Album Interview: Delta Saxophone Quartet With Gwilym Simcock: Crimson!

Pete Whyman | Chris Caldwell | Tim Holmes | Gwilym Simcock | Graeme Blevins

Simcock and the Delta Saxophone Quartet are not the first (nor will they be the last) jazzers to reimagine the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016

Slide Hampton Octet: Complete Studio Recordings

In a career full of great playing, bandleading and arranging, these medium-sized ensembles from 1959-60 are a particular high point...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018