Bryn Roberts: Fables

Victor Dybbroe | Mads Forsby | Mathias Holm | Martin Stender | Lars Greve

A warm, flowing session from a quartet that includes the inventively fluent ‘musician’s musician’ saxophonist Seamus Blake, bassist Orlando le...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Satoko Fuji: Gen Himmel

The Japanese Berlin-based pianist performs an elegantly meditative yet probing solo set that’s her first in nearly a decade....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

European Jazz Ensemble: 35th Anniversary Tour

Ali Haurand | Stan Sulzmann | Gerd Dudek | Matthias Schriefl | Alan Skidmore | Rob van den Broeck | Jiri Stivin | Clark Tracey | Rob Van Den Broeck

The European Jazz Ensemble are more occasional playmates than permanent fixture, and, perhaps wisely, keep tricky bits to a minimum....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2013

John Lewis/Sacha Distel: Afternoon in Paris

A complete clone of the 2005 Lonehill reissue, reviewed in this column back then, but worth picking up for Distel’s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Paul Bley Trio: Close

Paul Bley | Barry Altschul | Steve Swallow

This album, originally released back in the day shortly after an album by The Fugs and in-between Albert Ayler’s Spirits...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013

Davide Giovannini: Minas Project

Paul Booth | Davide Giovannini | Guillermo Hill | Davide Mantovani | Neil Angilley

Having straddled numerous musical genres throughout his career, Davide Giovannini’s first love has always been Brazilian music, and in particular...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2013

Kate Westbrook and Mike Westbrook: The Serpent Hit

Chris Caldwell | Andy Tweed | Kate Westbrook | Chris Biscoe | Karen Street | Simon Pearson

Nothing if not ambitious, The Serpent Hit finds the Westbrooks addressing the tiny matter of The Fall of Humankind. The...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2013

Dizzy Gillespie: Meets Phil Woods Quintet

Bill Goodwin | Phil Woods | Tom Harrell | Hal Galper | Steve Gilmore | Dizzy Gillespie

This Woods Quintet was a cracking band, with Harrell as the standout, enterprising and interesting to hear. Adding Gillespie allows...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013

Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett: Say It Isn't So

Richard Rodney Bennett | Claire Martin

Following their two previous duo albums, When Lights Are Low and Witchcraft, Say It Isn’t So presents a final third...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2013

The Matthew Finck/Jonathan Ball Project: It's Not That Far

Jay Anderson | Adam Nussbaum | Randy Brecker | Matthew Finck | Jonathan Ball

Finck and Ball are long time collaborators who enjoy an easy swinging partnership, which also includes writing all the material,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2013