Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter: Guilty Pleasures

Charlie Hunter | Kurt Elling | Nate Smith

An amuse-bouche before his new SuperBlue album drops later in 2023, Kurt Elling continues his exploration of the funkier side...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2023

Martin Taylor and Alan Barnes: Two For The Road

As with his album with pianist Dave Newton, this has Woodville's Alan Barnes close up and personal in a duo...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2012

Fabled: Fabled EP

Alex Munk | Conor Chaplin | Matt Robinson | Sam Rapley | Will Glaser

The reedsman Sam Rapley, a fairly recent Royal Academy of Music postgraduate, gives us just a small taster on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Opus 5: Pentasonic

Alex Sipiagin | Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski | Donald Edwards | Seamus Blake

The co-operative quintet's second album seethes and surges through tricky harmonies, zips from hard-boiled swing to soulful beats, and gives...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2013

Hector Quartet: Uncharted

Chris Gale | Chris Wallace | Jeff McLeod | Ted Quinlan

A Canadian collective with cool associations (the Breckers, Dave Holland), Uncharted is their debut, if now one from a rather...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2021

Nick Malcolm Quartet: Glimmers

Alexander Hawkins | Mark Whitlam | Nick Malcolm | Olie Brice

The Bristol-based trumpeter Nick Malcolm, who recently appeared on BBC Radio's Jazz on 3 Introducing with the band Dakhla, is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Lars Danielsson: Signature Editions 3

Bobo Stensen | Bugge Wesseltoft | Carsten Dahl | Copenhagen Concert Orchestra | DR Danish Radio Concert Orchestra | Eivind Aarset | Lars Danielsson | Leszek Mozdzer | Marilyn Mazur | Ulf Wakenius

Lars Danielsson is an exceptional bass player, even in a part of the world that seems to specialise in exceptional...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2010

Simon Moullier: Isla

Alexander Claffy | Jongkuk Kim | Lex Korten | Simon Moullier

Vibraphone-led groups are nowhere near as common as those fronted by piano or saxophone, but US-based French vibraphonist Simon Moullier...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023

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

Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes

Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge

The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013