Gilfema: Three

Massimo Biolcati | Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke

All good things come round again. Three is the trio’s first album in a dozen years but there’s a nary...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

John Coltrane: Plays the Blues

Steve Davis | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones | John Coltrane

Coltrane Plays the Blues, re-released in a limited edition run by Vinyl Lovers, is without the original cover art, an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Charlie Parker: Five Classic Albums

Hank Jones | Percy Heath | Curley Russell | Tommy Potter | Max Roach | Thelonious Monk | Kenny Dorham | Roy Haynes | Charlie Parker | Don Lamond

The second half of Parker’s studio output was all done for Norman Granz, including the famous Afro-Latin sessions that are...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020

Various: An Easy Introduction to Bossa Nova: Top 20 Albums

Antonio Carlos Jobim | Stan Getz | João Gilberto | Laurindo Almeida | Coleman Hawkins | Vinicius de Moraes

A sumptuous collection of 20 albums celebrating the late 1950s bossa nova craze in Brazil, a third world country that...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2020

Wako

Martin Myhre Olsen | Barour Reinert Poulsen | Constance Rogers | Simon Olderskog Albertsen | Isa Caroline Holmesland | Rob Waring | Adrian Løseth Waade | Arve Henriksen | Espen Reinertsen | Kyrre Laastad

Wako are a youthful-looking four-piece that originated at Trondheim University, the finishing school of Norway’s pioneering brand of millennial post-jazz....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Ian Shaw/Iain Ballamy/Jamie Safir: What's New

Jamie Safir | Ian Shaw | Iain Ballamy

From the very opening bars of the Bob Haggart/Johnny Burke title track, a song beloved by vocalists (Billie Holiday) and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Tom Green Septet: Tipping Point

Tom Green | Sam James | James Davison | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Scott Chapman | Sam Miles | Tommy Andrews

Tom Green’s Septet is a very close-knit working band, in a personal as well as artistic sense, and this is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Collocutor: Continuation

Josephine Davies | Marco Piccioni | Mike Lesirge | Tamar Osborn | Maurizio Ravalico | Suman Joshi

“To all who have loved and lost let love be what is remembered,” Tamar Osborn writes on the sleeve of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: If you Listen Carefully the Music is Yours

Drummer Gard Nilssen fires up this supercharged 16-piece Nordic big band whose widescreen sonic is inspired by Art Ensemble of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Willie Smith: Alto Sax All-Time Great 1934-1956

Steve Jordan | Flip Phillips | Nick Buono | Slam Stewart | Dave Robbins | Cat Anderson | Roy Eldridge | Gerald Wilson | Conrad Gozzo | Everett McDonald

It’s about time that altoist Willie Smith had another collection devoted to his work, following the Ocium Sound of Distinction...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2020