Enzo Zirilli: Radio Londra

Vintage sounds from a quartet led by an Italian drummer who's a visible presence on the London scene, that includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Dinah Washington: For Those In Love

An excellent anthology of Dinah Washington's work with Quincy Jones from the mid-1950s, plus some additional live tracks with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Fred Frith & Lotte Anker: Edge Of The Light

Fred Frith | Lotte Anker

Fred Frith has dedicated a good part of his energies over the last few decades to extending the possibilities of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2015

Anouar Brahem: Souvenance

Klaus Gesing | Anouar Brahem | Pietro Mianiti | François Couturier | Björn Meyer

Don't you just love the bombast and bluster of a big orchestra? Richard Strauss wrote for the Orchestra della Svizzera...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2015

New Vocabulary

Jordan McLean | Adam Holzman | Ornette Coleman | Amir Ziv

Ornette's recent struggles with ill-health have been well documented so this comes as a breath of fresh air, a reminder...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Various Artists: Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The USA 1957-82

Joe Henderson | Lloyd McNeil | Doug Hammond | The Last Poets | Archie Shepp | Richard Davis | Yusef Lateef | Don Cherry | Grachan Moncur | Jeanne Lee

The magnificent portraits of Ornette and Denardo Coleman on the front and Albert Ayler on the back, as featured in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Sinikka Langeland: The Half-Finished Heaven

On her fourth for the label, the Scandinavian kantele table harp player-vocalist invites you into an enchanting universe of north...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: From the Region

Following recent gigs in London with Peter Brötzmann, the superbly fresh-sounding contemporary Chicagoan vibraphonist Adasiewicz takes just a slightly calmer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

John Coltrane: Golden Disk

If you don't have the Rhino Heavywieght Champion collection of all Trane's Atlantic recordings, this (originally Japanese) highlights disc is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

Christopher Tordini | Tyshawn Sorey | Cory Smythe

While greatly impressing through his work with cutting edge leaders such as Steve Lehman, Steve Coleman and Roscoe Mitchell, Sorey...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015