Gerry Mulligan: I Want To Live!

This features Mulligan’s sextet from the film scored by Johnny Mandel (with three of Mandel’s own orchestral cues also included)....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Jerry Léonide: The Key

Benjamin Petit | Christophe Chretien | Fannie Klein | Fred Grenade | Gino Chantoiseau | Jerry Léonide | Johnny Joseph | Linley Marthe | Sylvain Gontard | Vincent Le Quang

Seen recently in London with American vocalist Somi, Léonide is the young piano prodigy from Mauritius, a territory that punches...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Groove Razors: Spacetime

Alan Short | Chris Webb | Kevin Glasgow | Laurie Lowe | Matt Hodge | Nik Svarc | Tomasz Zyrmont

All credit to any band that can record, promote and get noticed entirely off their own back. Groove Razors, not...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021

Rob Lavers: Six

Laurent de Wilde | Laurent Robin | Neil Yates | Rob Lavers | Stuart MacCullum | Tom Mason

The title may lead you to think otherwise but this is the fifth album from Lavers, the 1993 runner-up in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2010

Yussef Kamaal: Black Focus

Henry Williams | Yussef Dayes

South Londoners Yussef Dayes and Henry Williams draw inspiration from 1970s fusion trademarked by the likes of Herbie, Zawinul and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Kjetil Mulelid Trio: What You Thought Was

The allegiance to Keith Jarrett is clear throughout this haunting suite of originals by this Nordic pianist Mulelid, whose subtle...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Harold Land: Chroma (Burn)

Bill Henderson | Bobby Hutcherson | Harold Land | Ndugu | Reggie Johnson | Woody Theus

Perhaps best known for his 1960s work with Bobby Hutcherson, saxophonist Land renewed the partnership here on this hard and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2014

Tony Crombie: Whole Lotta Tony

Bobby Wellins | Gordon Beck | Harold McNair | Malcolm Cecil | Tommy Whittle | Tony Crombie

This obscure chunk of British modernism was originally issued on vinyl by Ember, a label which specialised in artists who...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2012

Tom Cawley: Catenaccio

Chris Higginbottom | Fini Bearman | Gareth Lockrane | Robin Mullarkey | Tom Cawley

Insiders might clock that this album's title names the 1950s/60s football swerve toward tight, sweeper-backed defensive tactics – the unenlightened...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Geir Sundstøl: Brødløs

David Wallumrød | Erland Dahlen | Geir Sundstøl | Jo Berger Myhre | Mats Eilertsen | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Sanskriti Sheresta

The 49-year-old Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and exotic guitar collector Geir Sundstøl has amassed close to 300 recording appearances as a sideman,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018