Jack Walrath: Unsafe at Any Speed

Boris Kozlov | Abraham Burton | George Burton | Donald Edwards | Jack Walrath

The line up is a classic modern jazz quintet, and the core aesthetic is contemporary theme-and-variations mainstream. But changing tempos,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2015

Huntsville: Pond

Tonny Kluften | Ivar Grydeland | Ingar Zach

Over the last decade or so, Norwegian trio, Huntsville, have forged a unique musical language that draws deeply from several...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Phil Robson Trio: The Cut Off Point

Ross Stanley | Phil Robson | Gene Calderazzo

The wonder is that it's taken Robson so long to set up such a trio. What doesn't surprise however is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015

Burak Bedikyan: Leap of Faith

Eric Alexander | Johnathan Blake | Doug Weiss

Burak Bedikyan is a Turkish jazz pianist who pledges allegiance to the bebop masters from Bud Powell through to the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Martin Archer and Engine Room Favourites: Bad Tidings from Slackwater Drag

Mick Beck | Corey Mwamba | Walt Shaw | Laura Cole | Peter Fairclough | Steve Dinsdale | Johnny Hunter | Martin Archer | Seth Bennett | Graham Clark

Two discs of ambitious and diverse music, inspired by AACM and the notion of moving beyond abstraction by drawing on...

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

Mikkel Ploug Trio: At Black Tornado

A Danish guitarist with a sound partly reminiscent of Mark Ribot, his country-blues-ish twang is written all over this likeable...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Sonny Rollins: Rollins Plays For Bird

George Morrow | Miles Davis | Percy Heath | Max Roach | Kenny Dorham | Sonny Rollins | Charlie Parker | Walter Bishop | Wade Legge | Philly Joe Jones

It's easy to see why Plays For Bird is often overlooked when talking of Rollins's Prestige period, since the opening...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015

Digby Fairweather: The Best of Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen

Derek Nash | Julian Tear Quartet | Julian Tear | Malcolm Earle Smith | Bobby Worth | George Melly | Dominic Ashworth | Chris Gower | Neil Bullock | Digby Fairweather

We're in the middle of a Digby Fairweather love-fest, it would J seem, what with the reissue of his autobiography,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015

Clarke-Boland Big Band: Handle With Care

Jimmy Woode | Billy Mitchell | Carl Drevo | Ahmet Muvaffak Falay | Jimmy Deuchar | Frederick ‘Keg’ Johnson | Francey Boland | Kenny Clarke | Idress Suliman | Edmund Arnie

Regrets? I've had a few and high on that list was never catching this iconic aggregation in person. There is...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2015

Jim Snidero: Main Street

Jim Snidero | Rudy Royston | Linda Oh | Fabian Almazan

This neat set of clean-cut originals and songbook covers is presented as a song cycle themed to reflect the American...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2015