The John Coltrane Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy: So Many Things: The European Tour 1961

Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman

The year 1961 was an incredibly productive one for John Coltrane. Impulse! bought out his contract with Atlantic records and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Luiz Moretto Quintet: Vampyroteuthis

Moretto has worked in Lisbon's African communities and here he plays both violin and African-Brazilian rabeca in a free jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Dave Tucker and Pierpaolo Martino: Melophobia

Dave Tucker | Pierpaolo Martino

Of all the myriad duo formats in jazz and improvised music, the melding of electric guitar and acoustic double bass...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker: The Tribe

Caspar Brötzmann | Eduardo Delgado Lopez | Frank Neumeier | Jon Beuth

German guitarist Caspar Brötzmann is the son of saxophone colossus Peter Brötzmann, a musician hose fierce reputation for taking European...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2019

Alice Zawadzki: Within You Is A World Of Spring

Alice Zawadzki | Fred Thomas | Hyelim Kim | Laura Senior | Lucy Nolan | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Peggy Nolan | Rob Luft | Simmy Singh

London-based singer, violinist and pianist Alice Zawadzki gifts us a second album both tender in spirit and defiantly anti-genre, hooking...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2019

Pavillon: Strong Tea

Andy Panayi | Dave Whitford | Gene Calderazzo | Hans Koller | Jeremy Price | Jim Rattigan | Martin Speake | Mick Foster | Percy Pursglove | Robbie Robson

Jim Rattigan, who leads the A-list cast of experienced Brit-based jazzers that make up Pavillon, was a former principal French...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

John Ellis: Evolution: Seeds and Dreams

Ellie Smith | Helena Jane Summerfield | Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh | Jason Singh | Jessica Macdonald | John Ellis | John Haycock | Pete Turner | Rick Weedon | Sam Healey

This is a new twist on the spiritual jazz which underpins Matthew Halsall's Gondwana Records. A founder member of The...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017

Florian Hoefner Group: Luminosity

This German-born pianist relocated from New York to Canada's Newfoundland as creative stimulant for this tranquil, contemporary post– bop recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Instant Composers Pool: Complete Boxed Catalogue

Ab Baars | Ab Van Der Molen | Alan Silva | Alessandra Patrucco | Ank Sillem | Anthony Braxton | Arjen Gorter | Baldo Maestri | Bert Koppelaar | Derek Bailey

Formed by drummer Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg in 1967, just a few months after Brötzmann released his epochal...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2013

Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus

Bob Neel | Bud Shank | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Corky Hale | Danny Richmond | Jimmy Bond | Joe Mondragon | Kenny Drew | Larance Marable

These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2018