Jaga Jazzist: Starfire

Andreas Møjs | Erik Johannessen | Even Ormestad | Lars Horntveth | Line Horntveth | Marcus Forsgren | Martin Horntveth | Øystein Moen

We live in a machine music age that's reached an increasingly polarised apotheosis. At one end ‘artists’ with barely a...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2015

David Binney: Lifted Land

Craig Taborn | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Tyshawn Sorey

He might slip under the radar these days more than he should, but the Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Alex Sipiagin: Ascent To The Blues

Alex Sipiagin | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Diego Rivera | Rudy Royston

Sipiagin has been a mainstay of the New York scene since moving from Russia in 1990, and has been a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2022

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders: The Trance Of Seven Colors

Abdellah Lamsouger | Abdellatif Abdellaoui | Abdelmalak Ben Hamou | Abdelmoula Hnikkich | Abderrahman Nimini | El Moktar Ghania | Fatima Labied | Fatna Ifis | Hadifa Ghania | Hassan Machoure

Originally released on Bill Laswell's Axiom label, this meeting between US saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders and North African Gnawa music...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Garzone/Tiberi Quintet: Audacity

A renowned educator (Mark Turner and Joshua Redman were among his pupils) George Garzone blows hot and cool on post-Coltrane...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufield: Never Were The Way She Was

Colin Stetson | Sarah Neufield

With his New History Warfare trilogy, released between 2007 and 2013, saxophonist Colin Stetson more or less established himself as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2015

Rich Perry: Organique

Hard bop tenor saxophonist Rich Perry is cooking up a storm on his first recording in the classic organ trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Hansu-Tori: An Improvised Escape

Adam Jackson | Chris Young | David Austin Grey | Eliza Shaddad | Jim Bashford | Nick Jurd | Nick Rundle | Sam Wooster

The line up for the band Hansu-Tori was originally assembled in 2008 by David Austin Grey while studying at the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Teodross Avery: Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Monk

Teodross Avery

The precocious sax virtuosity that got Teodross Avery a record deal in 1992 while a 19 year-old Berklee College student...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Tough!/Hard Bop

Art Blakey | Bill Hardman | Jackie McLean | Jimmy ‘Spanky’ DeBrest | Sam Dockery

Sandwiched between the Silver/Dorham/Mobley line-up and the Morgan/Golson/Timmons triumvirate there was the Messengers' much lesser known Hardman/McLean aggregation. Though they...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012