Julian Costello Quartet: Transitions

An underexposed saxophonist-composer in the post-Garbarek mould, Costello is clear-toned and assertive while performing originals with his pastoral jazz quartet,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017

Brew Moore: Special Brew

Alex Riel | Brew Moore | Harold Goldberg | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

It was US tenor man Brew Moore who famously stated, “Anybody who doesn’t play like Pres [Lester Young] is wrong”...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022

Tom Rainey Trio: Camino Cielo Echo

Ingrid Laubrock | Mary Halvorson | Tom Rainey

This is the follow up to the idiosyncratic New York-based drummer Tom Rainey's long awaited debut recording Pool School from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Christian Chevallier: Le Prince du Jazz Français

A real revelation – the big band and small group work of France's leading pianist and arranger from 1955-59, with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Kjetil Jerve: New York Improvisations

Explorative and fairly impenetrable standard interpretations and originals by a Norwegian pianist in trio with Drew Gress and saxophonist Jimmy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

George Colligan: Ask Me Tomorrow

George Colligan | Linda Oh | Ted Poor

A little like Bill Carrothers, who avoids being on America's metropolitan jazz radar, Colligan has often been based far away...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Andy Fusco: Joy-Riding

Andy Fusco | Jason Tiemann | Joel Weiskopf | Mike Karn | Walt Weiskopf

You'd never know it, but altoist Andy Fusco is 69-years-old. He joined the Buddy Rich Big Band back in 1978....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2017

Bob Downes Open Music: New York Suite

Bob Downes | Brian Godding | Denis Smith | Paul Bridge | Paul Rutherford

Though based in Germany since the 1980s, multi-instrumentalist Bob Downes will forever be associated with underground London of the late-1960s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Altitude

Gerald Cleaver | Joe Morris | William Parker

As Morris says in his sleeve notes, the accent is on ‘the long form.’ With each of the opening two...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012

Christoph Stiefel & Inner Language Trio: Big Ship

Arne Huber | Christoph Stiefel | Kevin Chesham

Having made a name on the Swiss jazz scene, the fiftysomething Zurich-born pianist and composer Christoph Stiefel looked to make...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014