Dave Gisler Trio: See You Out There

Dave Gisler | David Murray | Jaimie Branch | Lionel Friedli | Raffaele Bossard

Three releases, all featuring trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch, and all given extra – and unwelcome – piquancy by her sudden death...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Conrad Herwig – Igor Butman: Reflections

Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis

This is trombonist Herwig's tenth leader album for Criss Cross and the playing really is as good as it gets....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2016

Gary Peacock/Marilyn Crispell: Azure

Gary Peacock | Marilyn Crispell

Peacock is of course a known quantity, or certainly should be after 30 years on and off alongside Keith Jarrett,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2013

The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations

Julian Lage | Nels Cline | Scott Colley | Tom Rainey

Following his gently epic Blue Note debut, Lovers, Cline returns to more familiar territory with a spate of post-bop workouts...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2018

Steve Khan: Patchwork Medio Mezclado

Bob Mintzer | Bobby Allende | Dennis Chambers | Jorge Estrada | Marc Quinones | Randy Brecker | Rob Mounsey | Ruben Rodriguez | Steve Khan | Tatiana Parra

Khan has long behind left his jazz rock days, but the philosophy of fusion remains implicit to his art. Mezclado...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020

Joe Williams/Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison: Complete Small Groups Sessions

Williams’ flawless diction applies itself to 50 standards in swinging mainstream settings, mainly from the three albums he cut with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

The Chicago Reed Quartet: Western Automatic

Dave Rempis | Ken Vandermark | Mars Williams | Nick Mazzarella

This duck-billed doozy finds four generations of horn honkers blowing in from the Windy City to cut a cross-section through...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2015

Johanna Graham Quartet: Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Damian Rodd | Johanna Graham | Martin Bowie | Tim Greenhalgh

This debut release from Penzance-based jazz vocalist Johanna Graham showcases a fine singer with a palpably individual style. The eclectic...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2013

Harold McNair

Bill Le Sage | Harold McNair | John Cameron | Spike Heatley | Tony Carr | unknown orchestra

Another welcome reissue from Dutton Vocalion. If Flute & Nut, with its occasional foolish forays into easy listening (‘You Are...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Cat Toren's Human Kind: Scintillating Beauty

You don't have to be high to appreciate this Brooklyn-based keyboardist-composer's band's salute to the socially-conscious eastmeets-west jazz of the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020