Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse

Corrina Silvester | Dave Manington | Dudley Phillips | Fartun Tahir | Lewis Wright | Martin France | Naadia Sherriff | Samuel Hällkvist | Shabaka Hutchings | Yazz Ahmed

The Bahraini-born trumpeter and flugelhornist Yazz Ahmed has real rock credentials playing with Radiohead, These New Puritans and Joan as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Matt London: Speak Now Music for Tenor Saxophone

A contemporary classical repertoire, an occasionally jazzy one, for tenor saxophone performed by UK-based musician Matt London both solo and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Various Artists: Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion

The jazz DJ can be the enemy of live music, keeping real musicians out of clubs, so it’s hard to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Album Interview: Avishai Cohen: Almah

Amit Landau | Avishai Cohen | Cordelia Hagmann | Nitai Hershkovits | Noam Haimovitz Weinschel | Ofri Nehemya | Yael Shapira | Yoram Lachish

Some crossover projects might lead you to the conclusion that jazz and classical are mutually disempowering: the constraints on the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2014

Kaidi Tatham: An Insight Into All Minds

Amir Mitchell Townes | B Roberson | Eric Lau | Kaidi Tatham | Stro Elliot

To his great credit, British pianist-producer Kaidi Tatham has been resistant to categorisation for the best part of two decades....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2021

Ray Conniff: The Ray Conniff HI-FI Companion

A period piece of easy listening described on the sleeve as “supermarket music”, which is probably overstating the case –...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

Philip Gibbs: Infinite Spirit Perfect Now

A Bristolian guitarist drawing on Indian percussion traditions and the influence of Derek Bailey for his wackily engaging experimental improv...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Freddy Cole: Talk To Me

Curtis Boyd | Elias Bailey | Freddy Cole | Harry Allen | John di Martino | John Di Martino | Randy Napoleon | Terrell Stafford

Sounding grainier than of yore, the veteran Cole (he turned 80 in October) limits himself to the vocal role on...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2012

Claudio Filippini Trio: Facing North

Claudio Filippini | Olavi Louhivuori | Palle Danielsson

There's a joy about Filippini that translates to the oldest traditions of jazz and especially what used to be called...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: March/2013

Various Artists: European Cool Jazz 1951-1959

Bobby Jaspar | Don Rendell | Hans Koller | Johnny Dankworth | Johnny Keating | Lars Gullin | Sacha Distel

What an eye-opening treasure trove this double CD set is. The first thing that is so striking is that across...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014