Laura Jurd: Landing Ground
She's only just entered her final year at Trinity College of Music, but the composer-trumpeter Laura Jurd is already creating...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
The South Korean former pop singer and Berklee-graduated big-band composer Jihye Lee confirmed how eloquently she could balance fast-moving postbop...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey
Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 50th Anniversary Edition
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Their early 1970s recordings never repeated the shock of the new of the Crims’ Court of the… debut, despite Keith...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
The John Aram Quintet with Kenny Wheeler: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Suite
Andy Scherrer | Colin Vallon | Dave Whitford | John Aram | Kenny Wheeler | Norbert Pfammatter
This stunning production – in terms of packaging, production, an audiophile pressing on 180 gram vinyl and well conceived and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015
Nick Smart's Trogon: Tower Casa
Chris Montague | Dave Hamblett | Denny ‘Jimmy’ Martinez | Kishon Khan | Nick Smart | Pete Eckford
The head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music has released two CDs previously, both tributes, Remembering Nick Drake...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Paul Booth: 44
Booth is the great communicator. Whatever style he plays, and new album 44 covers everything from the rock-grooved ‘Blues in...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
Michel Portal: Men's Land
This album, from a May 1987 concert at the seventh Amiens International Jazz Festival by a group led by tenor...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2016
Steve Melling/Clark Tracey Special Septet: Special One
It’s taken a while for this to emerge but the wait was worth it. Something of a reunion of old...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011
Rosie Frater-Taylor: Featherweight
Dave Edwards | Lewis Moody | Rob Mullarkey | Rosie Frater-Taylor | Tim Potter
If the self-released Bloom was Frater-Taylor’s ‘coming of age’ album, then Featherweight is a realisation that, even at 24, life...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
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