Marta Sánchez Quintet: Danza Impossible

This New York-based pianist-composer is influenced by Brad Mehldau, her Spanish folk roots and New Music forms on her third...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Shepherds of Cats & David McLean: untitled

A 2CD set of over 2 hours of entirely improvised music recorded live in Wrocław, this experimental young Polish sextet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Ray Charles: Zurich 1962

Bruno Carr | David Newman | Dickie Wells | Don Wilkerson | Edgar Willis | Elbert ‘Sonny’ Forriest | Hank Crawford | Henderson Chambers | John Hunt | Keg Johnson

Just three months after yet another raucous open air appearance at the annual jazz festival staged at Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Ray...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2017

The Chris Hinze Combination: Sister Slick

Chris Hinze | Gerry Brown | Henny Vonk | Jan Huydts | Jasper Van ‘t Hof | John Lee | Philip Catherine | Rob van den Broeck | Rob Van Den Broeck | Robert Jan Stips

Dutch flautist Chris Hinze made a name for himself in the early 1970s with light jazz interpretations of both classical...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2015

Tom Gibbs: Fear of Flying

Euan Burton | James Maddren | Tom Gibbs | Will Vinson

Pianist Tom Gibbs comes from Glasgow, current hotbed for the new jazz generation in Scotland. He is a member of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Tony Allen: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Jean-Phillip Dary | Mathias Allamane | Nicolas Giraud | Rémi Sciuto | Tony Allen | Yann Jankielewicz

It took a couple of plays to adjust to the stripped down harmonic structures and changed rhythmic emphasis of Tony...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2017

Fire! Orchestra: Echoes

Andreas Werliin | Anna Lindal | Elsa Bergman | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson | Mette Rasmussen | Susana Santos Silva

Talk about epic. Scandinavian free jazz/experimental ensemble Fire! Orchestra open the second decade of their existence with the largest, most...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023

Nicki Leighton-Thomas: One Good Scandal

Alec Dankworth | Mike Pickering | Nicki Leighton-Thomas | Rod Youngs | Roy Dodds | Simon Wallace

A chance meeting with pianist and composer Simon Wallace, who at the time was working with songwriter, poet and performer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022

Stan Getz & Chet Baker Quartet: Live At The Haig 1953

Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Larry Bunker | Stan Getz

These unheard tapes have languished in the Pacific Jazz vaults since 1953, but the last few years have seen dribs...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Gene Ammons: Blue Groove/Preachin'

Clarence ‘Sleepy’ Anderson | Dorral Anderson | Doug Watkins | Gene Ammons | J.C. Heard | Ray Barretto | Sylvester Hickman

Gene Ammons never really enjoyed whatever success he ought to have had as both a prolific and popular recording artist,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014