Troyka: Ornithophobia

Joshua Blackmore | Kit Downes | Chris Montague

You could say the contemporary electric jazz trio Troyka has acquired a fourth member for their third album on the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Clare Fischer Big Band: Pacific Jazz

Brent Fischer's arrangements are developed from those of his influential father, both old and unreleased, for 18-piece plus big band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Lee Ritenour: First Course

Ritenour's first album as leader from 1975 by which time he was well-established as a session player, and it's a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Hijaz: Nahadin

Abir Nasraoui | Rui Salgado | Carlo Rizzo | Niko Deman | Moufadhel Adhoum | Chrysler Aerts

Opening with the full-bodied cry of an oud, this edgy but lovely release from the boundary-pushing multiethnic quartet Hijaz places...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2015

Tigran: Mockroot

Arthur Hnatek | Nate Wood | Chris Tordini | Tigran Hamasyan | Ben Wendel | Sam Minaie | Areni Agbabian

You can't really put a label on what Tigran Hamasyan does. You can try, of course. You could certainly say...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015

Gene Ammons: All Stars Complete Recordings with Mal Waldron, Pepper Adams and Art Taylor

Sister to Gene's complete sessions with Jackie McLean (and including a bonus track from it) this comprises three essential Prestige...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Rodney Whitaker: When We Find Ourselves Alone

Rodney Whitaker | Antonio Hart | Bruce Barth | Gregory Hutchinson | Rockelle Fortin

Detroit-born Rodney Whitaker, 46, is still one of our music's most respected bassists. After working with the underappreciated Terence Blanchard-Donald...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

Josh Kyle/Sam Keevers: Songs Of Friends

Josh Kyle | Sam Keevers

This follow-up to his terrific 2011 debut, Possibilities, sees Australian vocalist Josh Kyle back on home soil following an extended...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2015

Duduvudu: The Gospel According To Dudu Pukwana

Mark Sanders | Jody Scott | Harry Beckett | Hadley Louden | Ernest Boykin | Jim Peterson | Nick Stephens | Annie Whitehead | Dave Draper | Rudy Ortiz

As the strand of South African gigs at last year's London jazz festival showed, the spirit of the alto saxophonist...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Bonita

Sidsel Endresen | Stian Westerhus

Sidsel Endresen is as impatient with the limitations of vocal chords and language as Coltrane became with his sax. ECM...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2015