The Group: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jasen Weaver | Jason Marsalis | Oscar Rossignoli

By the 1980s, New York's avant-garde jazz community was under attack. The artist-run performance spaces that had been the engine...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2020

Michelson Morley: Strange Courage

Dan Messore | Jake McMurchie | Mark Whitlam | Will Harris

Best known as the sax man in Get the Blessing, the Bristol-based musician Jake McMurchie has been attracting some attention...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Alison Rayner Quintet: A Magic Life

Alison Rayner | Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Steve Lodder

Is music stronger than magic a young boy asked Alison Rayner? And here's one answer: a gorgeous album synthesising mood,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Jeff Reid: Look For The Light

Electric bassist Reed's quintet debut (with bass clarinettist Todd Marcus and trumpeter Sean Jones) has a straightahead, post-fusion kick that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Travis & Fripp: Discretion

Robert Fripp | Theo Travis

The earnest monochrome design, the stage shots with the players notably absent, the portraits with the downcast eyes, all summon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2014

Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Banz Oester | Gerald Cleaver | Marc Ducret | Samuel Blaser

This is the same quartet featured on the acclaimed 2010 release Boundless and it is equally impressive both in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Bill Evans/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Beauty & The Beast

Bill Evans | The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

Ah, but who is ‘Beauty’, who the ‘Beast’? Originally written for another muscular sax man, Dave Liebman, who first performed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017

Wes Montgomery: Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings

Buddy Montgomery | Carl Perkins | David Baker | David Young | Earl Van Riper | John Bunch | Melvin Rhyne | Mingo Jones | Monk Montgomery | Paul Parker

A sequel to Echoes of Indiana Avenue, Resonance's 2012 release taken from the same tape sources, this new volume of...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2019

Airto: Identity

Airto Moreira | David Amaro | Egberto Gismonti | Flora Purim | Herbie Hancock | John Heard | John Williams | Louis Johnson | Raul De Souza | Raul de Souza

History pulses from this 3CD set, a 1970s talent-fest mind-boggling in scope and as fresh and relevant as it ever...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019

Derek Bailey & Company: Klinker

Derek Bailey | Mark Wastell | Simon H Fell | Will Gaines

In the years leading up to this live set recorded at The Klinker in South London during the summer of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2018