Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Album Interview: All There, Ever Out

Alexander Hawkins | Dominic Lash | Hannah Marshall | Javier Carmona | Orphy Robinson | Otto Fischer

Just 30-years-old, Alexander Hawkins has already emerged as probably the preeminent UK avant-jazz keyboardist of his generation. In the trio...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2012

Fred Frith & Lotte Anker: Edge Of The Light

Fred Frith | Lotte Anker

Fred Frith has dedicated a good part of his energies over the last few decades to extending the possibilities of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2015

Jazz Plus Ensemble: Collective

Alastair Martin | Alexander Astbury | Chris Jones | Daniel Garel, | David Sear, | Felicity Evans | Joey Penaliggon | John Somerton | Jonathan Berry | Josephine Colter

This youthful big band drawn from across the UK is part of the work of the Jazz Plus organisation, dedicated...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2020

Max Roach Quintet: Swiss Radio Days

Bobby Boswell | Julien Priester | Max Roach | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Turrentine

For Max Roach the sudden death of trumpet icon Clifford Brown and piano prodigy Richie Powell in a 1956 Pennsylvania...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: March/2014

Chet Baker: Chet: The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker

Bill Evans | Bob Corwin | Bud Shank | Chet Baker | Clifford Jarvis | Connie Kay | Earl May | Herbie Mann | Jack Montrose | Joe Mondragon

The plethora of Chet Baker reissues continues and each of these releases has something to commend it, although the bonus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2020

Magos and Limón: Dawn

Alan Jackson | Harry Miller | John Surman | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Mike Osborne

Dawn is a collaboration between Mexican-born, NYC-based jazz singer Magos Herrera and Madrid-born guitarist, composer and producer Javier Limón, in...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2015

Shintaro Quintet: Evolution

Shintaro Nakamura

British label BBE's ‘ J Jazz Master series’, which focuses on independent and largely unknown parts of the Japanese scene...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Brandon Seabrook/Cooper-Moore/Gerald Cleaver: In The Swarm

Brandon Seabrook | Cooper-Moore | Gerald Cleaver

With electictic instrumentation including a banjo and a diddley-bow (the primitive one-string contraption that sat at the heart of early...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls: Pathways

Besides his solo jazz output, Leicester-based pianist Conway has made countless new age/mood music recordings and there's a similar non-offensive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Yaron Herman: Alma

Yaron Herman

One of many pianists who have produced occasional solo albums, the Israeli-born Herman has mainly recorded in a trio context...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2023