Fred Hersch: Solo

Andrew McCormack

Recorded live in a small, acoustically resonant Catskills church during the 2014 Windham Chamber Music Festival, this tenth solo release...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2020

Uwe Oberg: Twice, at Least

A lyrical yet experimental solo piano recording by a German pianist deconstructing pieces by Steve Lacy, Thelonious Monk through to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud with In the Country: Trail Of Souls

Roger Arntzen | Morten Qvenild | Knut Reiersrud | Solveig Slettahjell | Pål Hausken

This album is a spin-off from the highly successful concert promoted by ACT's Siggi Loch in 2014 at the Berlin...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

John Schott: Actual Trio

The Bay Area guitarist's third CD for John Zorn's label in trio with bassist Dan Seamans and drummer John Hanes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Barry Green Trio: Great News

Barry Green | Chris Cheek | Gerald Cleaver

Barry Green is a professor of jazz piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He's also the boss...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2015

Terje Gewelt: Steppingstone

The Jaco-influenced Norwegian bassist's 11th for the label is a trio recording featuring Staffan William-Olsson and drummer Adam Nussbaum, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Mike Paxton Quintet: Song of the Even Dunes

Alec Dankworth | Robin Aspland | Mike Paxton | Martin Shaw | Kit Downes

Having earned his spurs with the likes of Ray Warleigh and Mick Pyne, drummer Paxton toured and recorded with Humphrey...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2015

Working Week: May 1985 (The Livelove Series Volume 3)

Kim Burton | Joao Bosco De Oliveira | Chucho Merchan | Larry Stabbins | Paul Spong | Simon Booth | Juliet Roberts | Nic France | Richard Edwards

A great opportunity to savour a firing-on-all cylinders concert by what was always the best group that emerged from the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015

Tipping Point: The Earthworm's Eye View

James Mainwaring | Michael Barden | Matthew Bourne | Joost Hendrickx

Saxophonist James Mainwaring's latest project sees him turning away from the lingering influence of noughties UK post-jazz that he's pursued...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2015

Steve Barta's Symphonic Arrangement: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano

This is the US composer-arranger Steve Barta's easy-on-the-ears, Bach-inspired symphonic version of Claude Bolling's 1975 third stream classic Suite for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015