Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble: Implicate Order

Aidan Shepherd | Anton Hunter | Ben Kelly | Ed Cawthorne | Jim Molyneux | Kodjovi Kush | Nick Walters | Paul Michael | Rebecca Nash | Richard Foote

Nick Walters has been busy. Implicate Order is the first offering from Walters' new label D.O.T, and the third from...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: April/2021

Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Jazz Racine Haiti

An underrated Guadeloupe tenor saxophonist with an earthy pan- Caribbean reach to his music gives good value, basing his new...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Tom Ford: The Return of the Tennis Champions

Adam Flowers | Andy Bunting | Charles Haynes | Daniel Winshall | David Hodek | Davide Shorty | Jonny ‘Itch’ Fox | Keyon Harrold | Liselotte Östblom | Parthenope

Guitarist and producer Tom Ford is a familiar figure in session work around the UK and US, popping up in...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: February/2023

Fletcher Henderson: Harlem Madness

Overlapping the (still available) 1989 Bluebird anthology Hocus Pocus, this offers an overview of Henderson from 1925-37, but some choices...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Trevor Watkis Routes In Jazz Group: The Music Of Dizzy Reece

Byron Wallen | Dezron Douglas | Ralph Moore | Trevor Watkis | Willie Jones III

This transatlantic group led by British pianist Trevor Watkis paid tribute to the legendary Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece with a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2022

Red Kite: Apophenian Bliss

Bernt André Moen | Even Helte Hermansen | Torstein Lofthus | Trond Frones

Elephant9’s recent epic releases have made them the breakthrough band in Norway’s hard jazz-rock scene, which uses electric Miles and...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2022

Juxtavoice: Juxtanother antichoir from Sheffield

Directed by Martin Archer and Alan Halsey, this Sheffield-based experimental choir merges readings of texts by Samuel Beckett and Gertrude...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Stan Getz & João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Antonio Carlos Jobim | Astrud Gilberto | João Gilberto | Milton Banana | Sebastião Neto | Stan Getz

We're talking Stateside in the early 1960s and in much the same way that The Beatles' first album spawned a...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2014

The Sonny Bunt Quintet: Live at the Giraffe Room

Gene Crooper | Hoot Nettleton | Marge Gunderson | Sonny Bunt | Wilford Dixon

Bird had Dean Benedetti. Sonny Bunt had a former sock salesman called Clyde Farson. Just as Benedetti burned with the...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: November/2017

Stan Getz: Award Winner

Leroy Vinnegar | Lou Levy | Stan Getz | Stan Levey

Directly following a spirited romp through ‘All God's Chillun Got Rhythm’, Getz quizzes his accompanists in all seriousness “Did I...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012