Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light
Aidan Thorne | Chris Bestwick | Graeme Flowers | Kishon Khan | Nadia Basurto
Archie the Goldfish is a new project from Graeme Flowers and Chris Bestwick, who first played together over two decades...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2021
Michelle Lordi: Two Moons
Caleb Curtis | Eric Revis | Matthew Parrish | Michelle Lordi | Nasheet Waits | Orrin Evans
Michelle Lordi, who hails from Philadelphia, has taken the slightly unusual step of recording a jazz concept album. And what...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: February/2024
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders
Brian Blade | Scott Colley | Wolfgang Muthspiel
Nine years after his ECM debut Driftwood, Muthspiel may consider himself one of the ‘elders’ in the title of his...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2023
Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)
Heidi Vogel | Josh Vadiveloo | Liberty Styles | Nathan England Jones | Steve Saunders | Xhosa Cole
Birmingham saxophonist Xhosa Cole cements his reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting improvisers on this tribute to Thelonious...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2025
Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz
Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were
Bill Laurance | Michael League
Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
Rachel Musson: Dreamsing
With so little opportunity for collaboration, instrumentalists have gone down the solo route, One such musician-composer is London-based experimental saxophonist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021
Lionel Beuvens: Trinité
Alexi Tuomarila | Brice Soniano | Kalevi Louhivuori | Lionel Beuvens
The brilliant young Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila studied jazz piano at the Brussels Conservatory and remained on the Belgian scene...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2013
Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth
Jeremy Pelt's latest CD turns from the free-flowing exuberance of his highly-praised acoustic quintet to a loose-limbed keyboard-heavy jam featuring...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013
Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You
Franco Ambrosetti | Jack DeJohnette | John Scofield | Renee Rosnes | Scott Colley | Uri Caine
There are those who, in the past, have sniped at the stellar company with whom the trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti has...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021
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