Album Interview: Colin Steele Quintet: Even in the Darkest Places

Calum Gourlay | Colin Steele | Dave Milligan | Michael Buckley | Stu Ritchie

The album title reflects a gruelling five-year period for Colin Steele following a series of events that revolved around him...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?: Resolution

This Turkish multi-instrumentalist's series of orchestral pieces is influenced by his native folk music and a few 1970s progressive jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Ruby Braff/Coleman Hawkins: Braff!!

Mid-1950s Braff accompanied by Nat Pierce or Dave McKenna – the former's larger band on half the tracks includes Hawkins,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015

Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back

Backed by a band including respected bop saxophonist Dick Oatts and guitarist Dave Stryker, this skilled jazz standards vocalist heads...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Angus Bayley: Scrapbook

Mentored by the classical-influenced Brit pianist Richard Fairhurst, this 27-year-old Yorkshire-born pianist is gently persuasive as a composer of pastoral...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

John Minnock: Herring Cove

An unusual jazz-led venture in which a soul and jazz influenced vocalist, in trio with guest Dave Liebman, sings of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

WorldService Project: Live from London

Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Ellen Andrea Wang | Erik Nerheim | Kristian Harnes | Kurt Andre Aase | Neil Blandford | Ole Adland | Ralph Clarkson | Tim Ower

Led by keyboardist Dave Morecroft, London-based quintet WorldService Project are engaged in an ambitious quest to connect with like-minded fellow...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

WorldService Project/Alfie Ryner: Match & Fuse

Colm O'Hara | Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Derek Whyte | Gerald Gimenez | Guillaume Gendre | Guillaume Pique | Loris Pertoldi | Matt Jacobson | Neil Blandford

Led by keyboardist Dave Morecroft, London-based quintet WorldService Project are engaged in an ambitious quest to connect with like-minded fellow...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

Chad Lefkowitz-Brown: Onward

Having had diverse tour experience with the likes of Dave Brubeck and, er, Taylor Swift, the 27-year-old New Yorker proves...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Daniel Rosenboom's: Book of Omens

Trumpeter Rosenboom's apocalyptic suite has a experimental prog rock dimension as well as a noir-ish noughties Dave Douglas-infl uenced sound...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014