Geoff Simkins Trio: In A Quiet Way

Dave Green | Geoff Simkins | Nikki Iles

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a review of mine devoted to a London appearance by this Simkins trio...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2017

Murray/Allen/Carrington Power Trio: Perfection

Charnett Moffett | Craig Harris | David Murray | Geri Allen | Terri Lynne Carrington | Wallace Roney

Music industry classification would put Murray, Allen and Carrington in jazz, but aside from the common denominator of improvisatory skill...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Ran Blake: Chabrol Noir

The 80-year-old pianist-composer draws fascinatingly from the cinematic noir of French New wave director Claude Chabrol, mixing lyrically abstract jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Nightports with Tom Herbert

Adam Martin | Mark Slater | Tom Herbert

Adam Martin and Mark Slater AKA Nightports are an experimental studio production team currently recording a series of collaborations with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022

Daltin Trio: Tango de L'autruche

Under the leadership of accordionist Grégory Daltin, the Daltin trio explores things like tango, French and Neapolitan song in a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Jazz in the Space Age

João Paulo Esteves da Silva

As national jazz orchestras go, Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is remarkably progressive, performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2020

Jayanthi Kumaresh: Mysterious Duality

Jayanthi Kumaresh

In the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent's musicological realms, veena (or vina) can mean more than one thing. In its generic sense it...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Eriend Apneseth Trio: Lokk

The Hardanger fiddle specialist Apneseth makes an otherworldly combination of native folk sounds, Indian Raga, electronica and field samples seem...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

Miguel Gorodi Nonet: Apophenia

Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Gareth Lockrane | George Crowley | Kieran McLeod | Michael Chillingworth | Miguel Gorodi | Ralph Wyld | Ray Hearne

The young Spanish-born trumpeter Miguel Gorodi is a fairly recent ex-Guildhall graduate whose initial efforts have sent him mostly in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Jonathan Barber: Vision Ahead

Drummer Jonathan Barber has pedigree as a member of Marcus Strickland and JD Allen's band, but his quintet's spacey New...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018