Polly Gibbons: All I Can Do

James Pearson | Mark McLean | Paul Bollenback | Polly Gibbons | Richie Goods | Shedrick Mitchell | Tamir Hendelman

Recorded before an invited audience at NYC's Power Station Studios, this third Resonance release from Polly Gibbons is one of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2019

Michael Wollny Trio: In Concert: Klangspuren

Christian Weber | Eric Schaefer | Michael Wollny

Wollny's growth as an artist on record has been fascinating to follow and while not all his projects have yielded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

Sinne Eeg and Thomas Fonnesbæk: Eeg-Fonnesbæk

Sinne Eeg | Thomas Fonnesbæk

In contrast to the large textural palette of Sinne Eeg's 2011 recording, Remembering You, of which I was a huge...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2015

Kenny Wheeler/Alan Skidmore: Swiss Radio Days–Jazz Live Trio Concert Series Vol. 28

Alan Skidmore | Kenny Wheeler | Klaus Koenig | Peter Frei | Peter Schmidlin | Pierre Favre | Skidmore | Wheeler

Sometimes something quintessential comes one's way as a reviewer. So what makes this so very, very good? Take two soloists...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012

Hammond Eggs: Back In the Pan

A German outfit (featuring drummer Christoph Huber) that adds a jazz-rock sucker punch to their hallmark B3 trio sound with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos V

Ben Monder | Bill McHenry | Chris Cheek | Diego Urcola | Fernando Hiergo | Guillermo Klein | Jeff Ballard | Miguel Zenon | Richard Nany | Sandro Tomasi

The pianist Guillermo Klein and many of his peers on this new recording hail from the New York and Boston...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Mikele Montolli Trio: Satellite House

Charlie Stacey | Jamie Murphy | Mikele Montolli

Mikele Montolli is an Italian double bassist-composer in his early thirties who’s performed in a highly diverse number of settings...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Roswell Rudd: Trombone For Lovers

Aaron Comess | Bob Dorough | Dennis Nelson | Fay Victor | Gary Lucas | Ira Coleman | John Medeski | Matthew Finck | Michael Ducret | NYC Labor Chorus

As it says on the tin: the veteran trombonist delivers a set of unabashedly tender, heartstringspulling fare which harks back...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014

Marc Ribot Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard

Anthony Tidd | Jonathan Finlayson | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman | Steve Coleman

The acoustically restrained bias of New York's Village Vanguard club seems to be getting steadily subverted in recent years. Surely...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2018

Joan Chamorro & Andrea Motis: Feeling Good

The type of X Factor jazz-pop standard vocal thing that's been done to death in this kind of entirely predictable...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015