Album Interview: Walter Norris & Leszek Mozdzer: The Last Set: Live at the A-Trane

Leszek Mozdzer | Walter Norris

When Walter Norris died last year aged 79 the few obituaries that ran referred to the fact that the US...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Dhafer Youssef: Birds Requiem

Aytac Dogan | Chander Sardjoe | Dhafer Youssef | Husnu Senlendirici | Kristjan Randalu | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Phil Donkin

Recorded primarily in Sweden – hence the line-up of names familiar to Scandinavian jazz lovers – this beautiful, delicate offering...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2014

Ray Charles: Genius + Jazz = Soul/Genius of Ray Charles

Two classic albums originally on Impulse! and Atlantic that put Ray with members of the Basie and Ellington bands with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man

Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Tim Berne

Tim Berne is on record as stating that his Snakeoil ensemble is a band that loves to rehearse. And, boy,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Freddie Redd/Cecil Payne & Kenny Drew: Music From The Connection

Benny Green | Cecil Payne | Charlie Persip | Clark Terry | Duke Jordon | Freddie Redd | Gus Johnson | Howard McGhee | Milt Hinton | Ron Carter

A group of actual top draw jazz musicians were an integral part of the cast of Jack Gelber's controversial ‘drugs’...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

Alcyona Mick | Alex Ridout | Becca Toft | Camilla George | Carol Jarvis | Charlie Pyne | Chloe Abbott | Corrina Silverster | Gemma Moore | George Crowley

A slow cook of a release, its roots deep in a 2015 concert piece commissioned by Tomorrow's Warriors with support...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2019

Bob Thiele Emergency: Head Start

Bob Thiele

With its irreverent message to buyers to only pay a single album price for the double album on the front...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

sPace moNkey: The Karman Line

Two of the hippest Norwegian scenesters – the pianist/programmer Morten Qvenild and drummer Gard Nilssen – come together after having...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Peter Brötzmann: I Surrender Dear

Peter Brötzmann

Here’s a side to Peter Brötzmann you may not have encountered before: a dozen cuts, all solo tenor performances, that...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2020

Hackney Colliery Band: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jasen Weaver | Jason Marsalis | Oscar Rossignoli

The damaging walls built between jazz and the rest of popular music are blessedly crumbling now. This first live album...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020