Matinier/Ambrosini: Inventio

French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and Italian Nyckelharpa player Marco Ambrosini favour a traditional, sensuous music informed by jazz, baroque and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Rodrigo Amado Wire Quartet: Wire Quartet

Manuel Mota | Rodrigo Amado | Hernâni Faustino | Gabriel Ferrandini

The presence of freely-extemporising guitarist Manuel Mota within this all-Portuguese set-up pushes the creations of its bandleader into more radicalised...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2014

Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Ben Allison | Nasheet Waits | Curtis Fowlkes | Oran Etkin | Lionel Loueke

The hierarchy among reed instruments is bravely inverted here as the bass clarinet, often seen as the oddball member of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014

Mingus Dynasty: Chair In The Sky

Richmond | Jimmy Owens | Jimmy Knepper | Pullen | Joe Farrell | Charlie Haden | John Handy | Sy Johnson

The bookends of Mingus's second connection with Warner/Atlantic, with Moves being his first album since the recently reissued Columbias (Let...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014

Album Interview: Joshua Redman: Trios Live

Joshua Redman | Matt Penman | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers

Following last year's orchestral ensemble-backed recording Walking Shadows, featuring a set entirely made up of ballads, Redman has pared things...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Roan Kearsey-Lawson: Presence in Mind

This vibraphonist/marimba-composer's UK-based band is drawn in the main to the cool chamber sounds of MJQ and features multi-reedsman Duncan...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Charles Mingus: The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus

John LaPorta | Charles Mingus | Teo Macero | Clem DaRosa | Jackson Wiley | Thad Jones

Disregarding those Baron Mingus 78s he cut in California in the 1940s, these are amongst the first steps Charles Mingus...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014

Georgie Fame, Madeline Bell & Steve Gray: Singer

Recorded in 2004, Fame wrote the music/lyrics and Gray arranged this musical curio about a tragic fictional vocalist á la...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

The Chico Hamilton Quintet: A Different Journey

Albert Stinson | Charles Lloyd | George Bohanon | Gabor Szabor | Chico Hamilton

This valuable re-release is a part of Warner Japan's ‘Jazz: Best Collection 1000’ series of 24 bit remastered classics, mainly...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014

Nicola Conte: Free Souls

Teppo Mäkynen | Francesco Lento | Pietro Ciancaglini | Magnus Lindgren | Pietro Lussu | Nicola Conte | Gaetano Partipilo | Pierpaolo Bisogno

Like his 2011 release, Love & Revolution, this latest album from Italian guitarist, DJ, producer and songsmith Nicola Conte features...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014