Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid Recital

Matthew Shipp | Darius Jones

Four years on from Cosmic Lieder, Shipp and Jones reprise the title but add a new heading to suggest a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Conte Candoli: Sincerely Conte

Meagre 23 minute playing time doesn't mar this reissue of Candoli's high-powered 1954 hard bop quintet originally cut for Bethlehem...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Miguel Zenón: Identities Are Changeable

Alex Norris | Alan Ferber | Ryan Kerberle | Samir Zarif | Miguel Zenón | Michael Thomas | John Ellis | Johnathan Powell | Will Vinson | Hans Glawischnig

Very few jazz musicians have gained more respect on cultural levels in recent years than the superb saxophonist Miguel Zenón....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2014

Jim Black Trio: Actuality

Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan

Have Germany's Winter & Winter label stopped doing their special cardboard CD design packaging? Well, as they say, it's the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts

William Parker | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver

Jazz industry convention would call FBN a piano trio but that would be something of a restrictive term. Cleaver, Parker...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

David Sancious: Forest Of Feelings/Transformation (The Speed Of Love)

David Sancious | Gayle Moran | Billy Cobham | Ernest Carter | Gerald Carboy

Springsteen fans must have had a shock if they sought out these releases having clocked Sancious on The Boss' first...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014

Stan Getz: England 1958/Chicago 1957

Percy Heath | Stan Getz | Herb Ellis | Connie Kay | John Lewis | Gus Johnson | Sonny Stitt | Lou Levy | Ray Brown | Dizzy Gillespie

Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe made their first UK national tour in May 1958, opening at the Gaumont...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2014

Rotem Sivan Trio: For Emotional Use Only

An impressive sounding NYC-based Israeli guitarist-composer with a fleet lyricism influenced by deep-rooted traditions as well as Middle Eastern and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Bearetown: Leaning Jazz

Former Brighton-based tenor saxophonist Sigi Beare settled in Italy following her studies at the prestigious Siena Jazz School and her...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Mammal Hands: Animalia

Jesse Barrett | Jordan Smart | Nick Smart

If the musicians Matthew Halsall welcomes onto Manchester's Gondwana label share an MO, it's for meditatively circling passages, rhythmic drive...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2014