Rodrigo Nassif Trio: Estrada Nova

This Brazilian acoustic guitarist-composer favours infectious streetwise folk-grooves that are an unusual cocktail of mostly Argentinian and Brazilian roots music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Cyrus Chestnut: Midnight Melodies

Curtis Lundy | Cyrus Chestnut | Victor Lewis

The ever-expanding Smoke Jazz Club series, all recorded live on the club's Broadway premises, provides a valuable window on the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One

Abdul Zuhri | Angel Rogers | Bob Franceschini | Chieli Minucci | Gregoire Maret | Jerry Brooks | Jimi Tunnell | Omar Hakim | Rachel Z | Scott Tibbs

There's no escaping the Weather Report influence, whether it's in a crop of re-issues from Pastorious and Vitous or here,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Freddie Gavita: Transient

Calum Gourlay | Freddie Gavita | James Maddren | Tom Cawley

Freddie Gavita is a trumpeter/flugelhornist who's been turning heads as a member of Ronnie Scott's quintet and orchestra as well...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Marc Halbheer’s 5th Edition: Confidence in Symmetry

An experienced Swiss drummer with a very tightly organised set of compositions for quintet that draws largely from jazz-rock, fusion...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Mark Soskin: Hearts And Minds

Anthony Pinciotti | Jay Anderson | Mark Soskin

It's been a couple of decades since Soskin was the long-standing keyboardist for Sonny Rollins but his credits, which extend...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2017

EST Symphony

Dan Berglund | Hans Ek | Iiro Rantala | Johan Lindström | Magnus Öström | Marius Neset | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Verneri Pohjola

It would have been Esbjörn Svensson's next project.Classically trained at Stockholm's Royal College of Music, the work of Bach, Mozart,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016

Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: Time Like This

Ches Smith | Kris Davis | Michael Formanek | Tony Malaby

A brilliant double-bassist with what often sounds like Mingus roots, and a variously spiky and gracefully contemplative composer with an...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Feb/2019

Wolfert Brederode/Matangi Quartet/Joost Lijbaart: Ruins and Remains

Arno Van der Vuurst | Daniel Torrico Menacho | Joost Lijbaart | Karsten Kleijer | Maria-Paula Majoor | Wolfert Brederode

The young Dutch pianist Wolfert Brederode wrote his Ruins and Remains suite in 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Behn Gillece: Still Doing Our Thing

Art Hirahara | Behn Gillece | Boris Kozlov | Nicole Glover | Rudy Royston

We know Kozlov from his many tours with the Mingus Big Band and Royston has been around a while but...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2021