David Chesky: Jazz in the New Harmonic - Primal Scream

Billy Drummond | Peter Washington | Jeremy Pelt | Javon Jackson | David Chesky

The sleeve notes made much of the leader's ‘dark muse’, and with titles like ‘Check Point Charlie’, ‘Cultural Treason’ and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2015

Terri Lyne Carrington: Mosaic Project: Love and Soul

Tia Fuller | Terri Lyne Carrington | Geri Allen | Meshell Ndegeocello | Rachel Z | Ingrid Jensen | Patrice Rushen

Terri Lyne Carrington's current purple patch is one of the most gratifying things to have happened in jazz in recent...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2015

Mighty Sam McClain & Knut Reiersrud: Tears of the World

Mighty Sam McClain, a charismatic New Orleans septuagenarian, sings the blues alongside veteran guitarist Knut Reiersrud and a Norwegian band,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra & Makoto Ozone: Jeunehomme: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 K. 271

Bill Fleming | Lorne Cowieson | Ruaridh Pattison | Michael Owers | Konrad Wiszniewski | Chris Greive | Cameron Jay | Tommy Smith | Tom Walsh | Phil OÕMalley

Classical-jazz crossovers are nothing new – but a drum solo in the midst of a Mozart piano concerto? The twain...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2015

The Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble featuring Steve Gnitka: Earlier Outbreaks of Iconoclasm

Steve Gnitka | Milo Fine

The band name is a joke, of course, but Milo Fine can perhaps lay more claim than most to being...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2015

Weavels: The Living Puzzle

Mick Beck | Chris Cundy | Alex Ward

There's something quintessentially English about this music: as absurd as Monty Python or The Goons and as quietly subversive as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2015

Dayna Stephens: Reminiscent

Aaron Parks | Mike Moreno | Harish Raghavan | Walter Smith III | Rodney Green | Dayna Stephens

The final track of this excellent contemporary mainstream CD is a rousing re-make of the Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt two-tenor sax...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2015

Terell Stafford: Brotherlee Love Celebrating Lee Morgan

Tim Warfield | Terell Stafford | Dana Hall | Peter Washington | Bruce Barth

Hard-hitting trumpeter Stafford has led this group for quite a while now and it certainly shows. It's as tight as...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2015

Gratowski/Kruglov/Nabatov/Yudanov: Leo Records 35th Anniversary Moscow

Simon Nabatov | Alexey Kruglov | Oleg Yudanov | Frank Gratkowski

The 35th anniversary of a seminal label is marked by this summit meeting of four of the strongest voices on...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2015

Schlippenbach Trio: Features

Paul Lovens | Alexander von Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Alexander Von Schlippenbach

The trio of Schlippenbach, Parker and Lovens has been a working unit (albeit intermittently) for the past 45 years, a...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015