The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Abercrombie/Mintzer/Erskine/Patitucci: The Hudson Project (Live)

Bob Mintzer | John Abercrombie | John Patitucci | Peter Erskine

There's something strange in the tides of men when an album is promoted as “real music performed in front of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2012

Mark Murphy: Wild and Free

Babatunde Lea | Jack Gobetti | Mark Murphy | Paul Potyen | Peter Barshay

Recorded live at San Francisco's legendary Keystone Korner in June 1980, and sandwiched between his 1979 album Satisfaction Guaranteed and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2017

Hairy Sweets Edison: Patented By Edison/Sweetenings

Two Roulette albums from 1958-60 back-to-back that feature Sweets with tenorist Jimmy Forrest, in slightly brisk settings that sound just...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Fire! Orchestra: Enter

Andreas Söderström | Andreas Werliin | Anna Högberg | Christer Bothén | Dan Berglund | David Stackenäs | Elin Larsson | Emil Strandberg | Fredrik Larsson | Goran Kajfes

As the trio Fire!, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin have, since 2009, been making moody...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Abdullah Ibrahim: Ancient Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim

This exemplifies the mature period of Ibrahim when, following his late 1950s-early 60s South African band work and his 1960s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Fulvia Sigurtà: The Oldest Living Thing

Federico Casagrande | Fulvia Sigurtà | Steve Swallow

Italian trumpeter Fulvio Sigurtà delivers strong moods and stately themes with the clean lines and the close control of a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2015

JazzKamikaze: The Return of Jazzkamikaze

Anton Eger | Daniel Heiy Davidsen | Kristor Bredsgaard | Marius Neset | Morten Schantz

To these ears, fusion always seemed the squarest and least genuine of all the musical variations to evolve out of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2012

Michael Wolff: Live @ Vitellos

John B. Williams | Mark Isham | Michael Wolff | Mike Clark

Pianist Wolff has kept good company in his time, working with Cal Tjader and Cannonball Adderley in the 1970s and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2021

Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary

Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015