Paul Dunmall/Philip Gibbs/Neil Metcalfe: The Ravens Look

Philip Gibbs | Neil Metcalfe | Paul Dunmall

Prolific free-jazz reeds player Paul Dunmall has been known to take a turn on the saxello and Northumbrian pipes but...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2015

Vincent Peirani: Living Being

Yoann Serra | Emile Parisien | Vincent Peirani | Tony Paeleman | Julien Herné

Every so often, and it's getting more often these days, the ACT label succeeds in coming up with a real...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

François Moutin | Matt Mitchell | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Rudy Royston | Adam O'Farrill

This is Mahanthappa's third CD for the ACT label, and easily his best. He is on home territory, exploring the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015

Joe Sample and The NDR Big Band: Children Of The Sun

Joe Sample | Nils Landgren

Sample's simple but heartfelt notes explain the roots of this formidable release. While holidaying amid the beauties of the Virgin...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Spin Marvel: Infolding

Nils Petter Molvær | Tim Harries | Nils Petter Molvaer | Martin France | Terje Evensen

So prolific are RareNoise's releases you can miss the quality amid the quantity, but there's no doubting the Genoa-based label...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Houston Person: 75/Get out of my Way

When Person left Prestige to join the Detroit based Westbound label in 1972 this was the result – strong soul...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Daniel Humair: Quatre Fois Trois

With a personnel line-up that surely can't fail to deliver including Dave Liebman, Marc Ducret, Joachim Kühn and Michel Portal,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

The Matt Wates Sextet: Yemanja

Steve Main | Malcolm Creese | Matt Wates | Leon Greening | Matt Home | Martin Shaw

Matt Wates is a very fine altoist, not to mention an accomplished bandleader and composer. It should come as no...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2015

Dieter Ilg: Mein Beethoven

Dieter Ilg | Patrice Héral | Rainer Böhm

Having done Verdi for 2010's Otello and Wagner for 2013's Parsifal, bandleader/bassist Dieter Ilg was probably faced with a stark...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2015

Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

Matana Roberts

The third installment of Roberts' Coin Coin series, which, although too early in her career to be called a defining...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015