Mole: What Is The Meaning?

David Gilmore | Hernan Hecht | Luri Molina | Mark Aanderud

No, not a tribute band to Robert Wyatt and Matching Mole, this quartet is a whole Mole to themselves, although...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2012

Bill Jennings: Architect of Soul Jazz

Over 50 tracks by this influential Indianapolis guitarist show why he was revered by the likes of B.B. King and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Album Interview: Nikki Iles: Hush

Jeff Williams | Nikki Iles | Rufus Reid

This is a lovely disc from a perennially underrated – though far from unknown – British pianist. Here Nikki Iles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

Alex Sipiagin: Balance 38-58

Adam Rogers | Alex Sipiagin | David Binney | Eric Harland | John Escreet | Matt Brewer

This is as good an example of this kind of contemporary New York jazz as you'll find anywhere. There's terrific...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2015

Duke Pearson Trio: Profile/Tender Feelin's

Two classic 1959 Blue Note albums put together back to back for this issue by Pearson, better known, perhaps as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

The Impossible Gentlemen: Internationally Recognised Aliens

Adam Nussbaum | Gwilym Simcock | Mike Walker | Steve Rodby | Steve Swallow

Undaunted by the logistical/financial problems of bringing across Messrs. Swallow and Nussbaum from the USA, the Impossible Gentlemen have done...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Stanley Jordan: Friends

Bucky Pizzarelli | Charlie Hunter | Charnett Moffett | Christian McBride | Kenny Garrett | Kenwood Dennard | Mike Stern | Nicholas Payton | Regina Carter | Ronnie Laws

Ever wondered what happened to Stanley Jordan? He was the self-taught boy wonder whose amazing two-hand-tapping system for guitar was...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2011

Herb Geller and Charlie Mariano: Halle Opera House 2002

Burkhard Braune | Charlie Mariano | Herb Geller | Thomas Biller

Two altoists with histories similar in some respects and dissimilar in others, who had rarely crossed paths since the mid-1950s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

Stian Westerhus: The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers

Stian Westerhus

This third postcard from the edge from pioneering Norwegian guitarist/composer Stian Westerhus goes some way to charting the progress of...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2012

Monica Zetterlund: Don't Dream of Anybody But Me

The Swedish jazz singer in a collection of hitherto hard-to-find EPs from the end of the 1950s that prove her...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012