Chet Baker: Plays and Sings

Bert Dahlander | Bob Neel | Bob Whitlock | Bobby White | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Dannie Richmond | George Morrow | Gérard Guston | Jimmy Bond

There seems to have been a plethora of Chet Baker releases in the last year or two, and there is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2020

The Code Quartet: Genealogy

Lex French

As the notes accompanying Genealogy put it, the album “builds on the freedom of expression pioneered by Ornette Coleman's seminal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021

Ed Neumeister Quartet: What Have I Done?

Drew Gress | Ed Neumeister | Gary Versace | Tom Rainey

In the often captivating mix of idiosyncrasy and elegance of this intriguing set, the American trombonist, composer and educator Ed...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Dexter Gordon: Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard

Dexter Gordon | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw

Dexter Gordon moved to Copenhagen in 1962. He sent back a couple of musical postcards from Paris, one in 1963,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2021

Nick Mason: Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports

Carla Bley | Carlos Ward | Chris Spedding | D Sharpe | Earl McIntyre | Gary Valente | Gary Windo | Howard Johnson | Karen Kraft | Mike Mantler

Despite their (early on, at least), reputation for weirdness and freakery, Pink Floyd's individual members all had fairly straightforward and...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023

David Sylvian: Blemish

Buckhardt Stangl | Christian Fennesz | David Sylvian | Derek Bailey | Evan Parker | Franz Hautzinger | John Tilbury | Keith Rowe | Marcio Mattos | Michael Moser

David Sylvian's journey from pretty pop idol to the outer reaches of the avant-garde is equalled by few other musicians:...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia with the NYJO: Bulletproof

Peter Lemer

Such is the confluence of so many streams in Thompson's life that this exuberant release celebrates, you're already cheering before...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021

Clarence Penn: Dali in Cobble Hill

Adam Rogers | Ben Street | Chris Potter | Clarence Penn

Clarence Penn doesn't seem to do many record dates these days, possibly because he works regularly with Dianne Reeves, which...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013

Drifter: Flow

This is a very together CD. There is an ease and confidence of conception, which lifts this album out of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

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