Cameron Graves: Seven

Cameron Graves | Colin Cook | Kamasi Washington | Max Gerl | Mike Mitchell

Blimey! Did they have a bus to catch? Graves and co. billywhizz through 11 cuts in just 32 minutes. Graves...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Alam Khan: Immersion

Alam Khan | Benjamin Araki | Indranil Mallick

Immersion's packaging is Spartan or, if that's the way your tastes tend, minimalist. Its music, though, oozes sumptuousness – it's...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: August/2018

Coryell Auger Sample Trio: Coolidge Returns

Julian Coryell | Karma Auger | Nicklas Sample

Despite it's starry provenance – yes, Julian is Larry's son, Nick is Joe's offspring and Karma is Son of Brian...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2010

Sarah Vaughan/Count Basie Orchestra: Send in the Clowns

This 1981 collaboration finds Vaughan in fine if slightly muffled form, and like her 1960s Roulette collaboration, backed by the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Jan Garbarek: Danser

Arild Andersen | Bobo Stenson | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Palle Danielson | Terje Rypdal

This new box set in ECM's Old & New Masters series marks a welcome return to the catalogue of Sart...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Fred Frith/Hans Koch: You Are Here

At the vanguard of the 1980s downtown movement, Frith's imaginative guitar treatments still sound fresh here as he merges with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Tohpati Ethnomisson: Mata Hati

The fusion's all wrong on this Indonesian guitarist's crass mix of overstated Gamelan rhythms and jazz rock....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Andreas Schaerer/Lucas Niggli: Arcanum

Recorded in the Loft club in Cologne, here's a freshly imaginative German duo of voice, electronics and percussion calling on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

European Jazz Trio

Veteran German saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Ali Haurand and Czech flautist Jiri Stivin stay closer to a raw, lyrical traditional...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius

Billy Higgins | Don Cherry | Don Payene | Ornette Coleman | Percy Heath | Red Mitchell | Shelly Manne | Walter Norris

This set, combining Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman and Tomorrow Is The Question! The New Music of Ornette...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022