Marc Cary Focus Trio: Four Directions

Marc Cary | Rahsaan Carter | Sameer Gupta

Those with long memories will know that Cary has been one of the significant pianists to emerge from America in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2013

Billy Cobham: Compass Point

Stefan Rademacher | Billy Cobham | Carl Orr | Gary Husband

Although Billy Cobham recorded this double album during a 1997 residency at the Compass Point Hotel in the Bahamas, it...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2013

Mara Rosenbloom Quartet: Songs from the Ground

This New York City-based pianist’s compositions call on singer-songwriter-like form for inspiration and she performs with a quartet that features...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Billy Bang: Da Bang!

Dick Griffin | Hilliard Greene | Newman Taylor-Baker | Billy Bang | Andrew Bemkey

Recorded in Helsinki, just two months before Bang’s untimely death, this album only features one composition by the violinist, either...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2013

Sharp Gibbs Niggli: Crossing the Waters

Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli selected the influential downtown guitarist Elliot Sharp as a trio partner for a 2012 festival at...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Hallam/Roberts Jazz Five: Hallam/Roberts Jazz Five The Sunny Side of the Street

Graham Smith | Amy Roberts | Jim Swinnerton | John Hallam | Tom Kincaid

In the days when there were jazz clubs in the back rooms of pubs in most towns in the UK,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring Joe McPhee: Impressions of Po Music

Joe McPhee | Tim Daisy | Jeb Bishop | Dave Rempis | Jason Adasiewicz | Kent Kessler | Ken Vandermark | Josh Berman | Fred Lonberg-Holm

As McPhee explains in his sometimes-poetic liner notes, the notion of ‘Po’ derives from the philosopher Edward de Bono –...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2013

Paul Horn: In India/Cosmic Consciousness – Paul Horn In Kashmir

Haffar Hyder Khan | Vinay Bharat-Ram | Chunilal Kaul | JN Shivpuri | Paul Horn | Rajinder Raina | Gopal Verma | Gopal Krishnan | Satya Dev Pawar

It is interesting that even before the vocals kick in on this double album’s track ‘Arti (Prayer Song)’ – the...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2013

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Outstairs

Gjermund Larsen | Eivind Lønning | Oddvar Johansen | Tove Törngren | Espen Reinertsen | Christian Wallumrød

Chritian Wallumrød’s progress on ECM since his debut in 1996 with No Birch has been one of gradual, sometimes imperceptible...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2013

Roy Haynes: Three Classic Albums: Plus We Three/Just Us/Out Of The Afternoon/Jazz Abroad

Adrian Acea | Roy Haynes | Paul Chambers | Henry Grimes | Richard Wyands | Phineas Newborn | Eddie De Haas | Sahib Shihab | Joe Benjamin | Roland Kirk

For this writer one of the most enduring images of the bebop era is a photograph of Charlie Parker being...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013