Phronesis: Life to Everything

Jasper Høiby | Anton Eger | Ivo Neame

Phronesis has been one of the bigger success stories in contemporary UK piano trio jazz of a type that's reaching...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Emilia Mårtensson: Ana

Mats Äleklint | Klaus Holm | Paal Nilssen-Love | Paulinho Bicolor | Per Äke Holmlander | Andreas Wildhagen | Julie Kjær | Christian Meaas Svendsen | Ketil Gutvik | Jon Rune Strøm

Immensely subtle arrangements, exquisitely beautiful songs, and, at its centre, a voice of quite remarkable expressive depth. With her second...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2016

Vijay Iyer: Mutations

Kivie Cahn-Lipman | Miranda Cuckson | Vijay Iyer | Kyle Armbrust | Michi Wiancko

Iyer's first recorded work with strings places him in a very different setting to previous albums that range from quartet...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2014

Iiro Rantala String Trio: Anyone with a Heart

The renowned Finnish pianistcomposer joins up with chamber strings including Polish violinist Adam Baldych and Austrian cellist Asja Valcic (from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Modern Jazz Quartet: NDR 60 Years Jazz Edition No. 04 28 October 1957, Hanover

Percy Heath | Connie Kay | John Lewis | Milt Jackson

This most welcome release slips in perfectly with the Lost Tapes Germany 1956-58 (SWR Music 101 731), which I recently...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2014

Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Matt Fishwick | Frank Basile | Steve Fishwick | Dave Whitford | Osian Roberts

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Alex Riel/Stefan Pasborg: Drum Faces

Two drummers, the ever-reliable Danish veteran Alex Riel and young pretender Stefan Pasborg, lead an ensemble with an uncoordinated mix...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Karin Krog and John Surman: Songs About This And That

Ivar Kolve | Bjorn Klakegg | Tom Oldstad | Terje Gewelt | John Surman | Karin Krog

You won't be fooled of course by the disingenuous title: when the voices of Surman and Krog entwine as they...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2014

Scott Hamilton Quartet: Dean Street Nights

Scott Hamilton | John Pearce | Dave Green | Steve Brown

Here's a man who knows what he does best and is content with that. Hamilton, shortly to be 60, has...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2014

John Coltrane Quintet: Complete November 18, 1961 Paris Concerts

Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | Reggie Workman | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

Like some of the other recordings from this first European tour, the sound quality isn't that of the original broadcast...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2014