Anthony Strong: On A Clear Day

Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom | Tom Farmer | Anthony Strong

Anthony Strong's second release on French independent label Naïve picks up where his 2013 label debut Stepping Out left off,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015

Merzbow/Mats Gustafsson/Balázs Pándi/Thurston Moore: Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper

Balázs Pándi | Masami Akita | Thurston Moore | Mats Gustafsson

Just how many noise musicians does it take to scalp a cloud of killer bees with a buzzsaw? The trio...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2015

Mark Helias Open Loose: The Signal Maker

Mark Helias | Tom Rainey | Tony Malaby

American bassist Mark Helias has played with the likes of Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Muhal...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015

Luca Aquino: OverDoors

The Nils Petter Molvaer-ish Italian trumpeter and Manu Katché sideman fronts a nu-jazz-meets-rock quartet that reworks a selection from The...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie/Kansas City 7/Atomic Basie/Basie Plays Hefti

Frank Foster | Al Grey | Joe Williams | Marshall Royal | Frank Wess | Frank Sinatra | Joe Newman | Lockjaw Davis | Neal Hefti | Eric Dixon

A slightly disparate group of albums, all arranged by Hefti except for the lightweight 1962 septet that, apart from covering...

Reviewed by Brian Brian in issue: July/2015

Tim Warfield: Spherical – Dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk

Tim Warfield | Orrin Evans | Ben Wolfe | Clarence Penn | Eddie Henderson

God, not another Monk covers album, that's the natural reaction! But it turns out to be the best anyone's made...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2015

Buddy Rich: Birdland

Steve Marcus | Jon Burr | Ross Konikoff | Waymon Reed | Jon Marshal | Alan Gauvin | Turk Mauro | Dale Kirkland | Bobby Mintzer | Buddy Rich

What we have here is the old shedbuilder's mid-1970s aggregation privately recorded on location by sax man Alan Gauvin. It's...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015

Bill Evans: Köln Concert 1976

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Eliot Zigmund/Marty Morell

Although it's nice to have another album called Köln Concert, I can't pretend that it's anything particularly unusual. Recorded at...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Kit Downes: Tricko

Lucy Railton | Kit Downes

Available in both digital and analogue formats from the specialist vinyl label Coup Perdu, Tricko is the duo of leading...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Mikko Innanen/William Parker/Andrew Cyrille: Song For A New Decade

Andrew Cyrille | William Parker | Mikko Innanen

Finnish multi-reed player Innanen is one of the most impressive young musicians in his country and his profile in Europe...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015