MoonMot: Going Down the Well

Cath Roberts | Dee Byrne | Johnny Hunter | Oli Fuster | Seth Bennett | Simon Petermann

Moonmot are a mischievous yet accomplished agglomeration of Swiss and Brit elements who play largely improvised music against strongly written...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2020

Wallace Roney: Blue Dawn – Blue Nights

Emilio Modeste | Kojo Odu Roney | Lenny White | Oscar Williams | Paul Cuffari | Quintin Zoto | Wallace Roney

The American critic Francis Davis astutely observed in the liner-notes to Wallace Roney's 2010 album, If Only For One Night,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Quinsin Nachoff: Flux

David Binney | Kenny Wollesen | Matt Mitchell | Quinsin Nachoff

Avant-garde tenorist Nachoff comes from Toronto, Canada. He is equally at home with jazz and contemporary classical music and his...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2016

Jeff Williams: Bloom

Carmen Staaf | Jef Williams | Michael Formanek

The Ohio-born London-based drums veteran Jeff Williams is on a roll at the moment. Last year's excellent ‘live’ Lifelike, recorded...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Fringe Magnetic: Clocca

Andrew Plummer | Ben Reynolds | Elisabeth Nygaard | Emilia Mårtensson | Ivo Neame | James Allsopp | Jasper Høiby | Kit Massey | Natalie Rozario | Robin Fincker

If, as reported, this CD is the swansong, the final third album from the Loop Collective and Jamie Cullum trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

The Sachal Ensemble: Song of Lahore

The Sachal Ensemble

This is an album that comes not only with great music but also a great story attached. In Lahore a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

Lewis Porter: Beauty & Mystery

John Patitucci | Lewis Porter | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tia Fuller

The veteran pianist Lewis Porter has an impressive résumé with his work behind the scenes as academic and author, having...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 – Inland

Christy Doran | Florian Arbenz | Martial In-Albon | Matthias Würsch | Nils Wogram | Rafael Jerjen

In the tenth of 12 instalments of musical ‘Conversations’, the drummer/percussionist Florian Arbenz turns to the musicians of his Swiss...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2024

Art Tatum Trio: The Legendary 1956 Session

The thought-processes determining that one public-domain session is an Essential Jazz Classic (see Monk above) and another is a mere...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2015

Johnny Griffin: Four Classic Albums

The early material consists of Griffin’s three Blue Note albums and his first Riverside, presenting the virtuoso tenorman from Chicago...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020