Anders Helmerson Trio: Opus i

This power piano trio favour prog rock’s tricky time meters, percussive accents and densely arpeggiated trance-y piano and while it’s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Dave Pietro: Hypersphere

Saxophonist Pietro heads a good quality large ensemble (that includes pianist Gary Versace and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin) through an airily...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Stan Kenton & His Orchestra: Concerts in Miniature Volume 21-24

Bill Dockstader | Bill Holman | Bill Russo | Bob Burgess | Buddy Childers | Conte Candoli | Dave Schildkraut | Don Bagley | Don Dennis | Don Smith

Few bands apart from Ellington have had such day by day, week by week documentation of their activities as Stan...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Nguyên Lê Quartet: Streams

Chris Jennings | Illya Amar | John Hadfield | Nguyên Lê

The Paris-born Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Lê has established one of the most standout, highly colourful project-based discographies on the ACT...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2

Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Following the satisfying Vol. 1 comes the understandably titled Vol. 2 of this band's exploration of ‘contrafacts’: new compositions built...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Jason Jackson: Inspiration

Alina Bzhezhinska | Joel Prime | Larry Bartle | Tony Kofi

No, I wasn't sure who Jason Jackson was either! But he's been one of the hardest-working, most respected trombonists in...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2018

Clark Terry: Four Classic Albums

The remastering is far better here than on the Giuffre set, and three early Terry albums plus one under Jimmy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter

Betty Carter | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks | Kenny Washington

A feature on Betty Carter in the Village Voice in the late 1970s feared she might die an unknown genius...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019

Pete Malinverni: On The Town – Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

Jeff Hamilton | Pete Malinverni | Ugonna Okegwo

Malinverni is something of a veteran, not only as a New York-based mainstream jazz pianist, but also as composer and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2022

Wadada Leo Smith: Meditations On Monk/Najwa

Adam Rudolph | Bill Laswell | Brandon Ross | Henry Kaiser | Lamar Smith | Michael Gregory Smith | Pheeroan akLaff | Wadada Leo Smith

Two contrasting sides of the trumpeter-composer that are linked by creative slight of hand and conceptual audacity. Performing the music...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018