Bobby Bradford and Hafez Modirzadeh: Live At The Open Gate

Alex Cline | Bobby Bradford | Hafez Modirzadeh | Mark Dresser

Bradford, now an octogenarian, is a trumpet and cornet player known for his work in the avant-garde, most notably with...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: September/2016

Howard Riley: More Listening, More Hearing

Howard Riley

Perhaps the first thing to say is that this new release, along with its predecessor on the same label, Listen...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2020

Elton Dean Quintet: Welcomet – Live In Brazil, 1986

Elton Dean | Harry Beckett | Liam Genockey | Marcio Mattos | Paul Rutherford

An extract from this monumental slab of music, which was recorded live in São Paulo 30 years ago, was issued...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2017

Satoko Fujii: Spring Storm

A new trio for this exploratory Berlin-based pianist who rarely fails to deliver something interesting and invigorating. Here her trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Kevin Fitzsimmons: Working Day and Night

This suave yet versatile London-based R&B-tinged jazz crooner swings a Michael Jackson song convincingly among an eclectic range of standards...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Marc Copland and John Abercrombie: Speak to Me

John Abercrombie | Marc Copland

This pair of esteemed 60-something veterans could be said to have mellowed appreciably since their earliest collaboration on the 1973...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Parisien-Peirani-Schaerer-Wollny: Out of Land

Andreas Schaerer | Emile Parisien | Michael Wollny | Vincent Peirani

Though this was the first performance by this intriguing line-up in Bern in 2016, it is already being hailed a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa

Adam Fairhall | Corey Mwamba | Nat Birchall | Nick Blacka | Paul Hession

For anyone who still believes in the transformative and inherently spiritual nature of jazz, most forcefully proposed by John Coltrane...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2014

Joe Alexander: Blue Jubilee

A forgotten man who made just this one album, Alexander is a strong and tender tenorist, ably backed here by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

The Pollyseeds: Sounds Of Crenshaw Vol. 1

Adam Turchin | Andrew Gouche | Brandon Eugene Owens | Chachi (v) | Chris Cadenhead | Craig Brockman | Curly Martin | Kamasi Washington | Kenneth Crouche | Marlon Williams

To Pimp A Butterfly could just be the decade's most important album for US jazz at least, Kendrick Lamar's imprimatur...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2017