Zzebra: Hungry Horse (Live in Germany 1975)

Alan Marshall | Dave Quincy | John McCoy | Lasisi Amao | Liam Genockey | Steve Byrd | Tommy Eyre

Watch out! There’s a Zzebra crossing. But where we are going, we don’t need roads… or warning signs. Just prick...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: May/2024

Tori Freestone Trio: El Barranco

Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Tori Freestone

The tenor saxophonist Tori Freestone has been making a strong impression in the soloist chair as a member of the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2016

Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar de Nubes

Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Tori Freestone

Tenerife's highlands and sea-of-clouds coastline are spiritual homes for the imaginative British saxophonist Tori Freestone, who took a break there...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2019

Various Artists: Greater Lengths: An All Saints Compilation

Brian Eno | Harold Budd | John Cale | John Paul Jones | Jon Hassell | Laraaji | Roger Eno

All Saints were never just going to release a boring old compilation. Instead we have one CD evoking projects by...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014

Vinicius Cantuária: Indio de Apartamento

Bill Frisell | Dadi | Jesse Harris | Liminha | Mário Laginha | Norah Jones | Olivier Glissant | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Vinicius Cantuária

Vinicius Cantuária is a titan of Brazilian music, and one of its most maverick. A move to New York in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence – Live

Christoph Irniger | Dave Gisler | Michael Stulz | Raffaele Bossard | Stefan Aeby

The quintet Pilgrim, formed by the now 45-year-old Swiss saxophonist and composer Christoph Irniger back in 2009, is an exploratory,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2025

Dave Bailey: The Complete 1 & 2 Feet In The Gutter Sessions

Bailey's sextet sessions for Epic were particularly showcases for the late Clark Terry, who stamps his personality indelibly on this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

The Bad Plus: Activate Infinity

Dave King | Orrin Evans | Reid Anderson

Few jazz ensembles can be identified as instantaneously as The Bad Plus. There are even fewer that can replace a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

John Coltrane: Blue World

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

One year on from the international success of Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album comes another ‘lost album, this...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019

Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Art Taylor | Barney Wilen | Charlie Rouse | Sam Jones | Thelonious Monk

The chance finding of tapes held by the late music producer Marcel Romano in 2014 has enabled Monk's soundtrack recordings...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2017