Irreversible Entanglements – Protect Your Light(Impulse!. Album review by Dan Bergsagel) The first time I heard Irreversible Entanglements was by accident, during NYC Winter Jazzfest in January 2019. I was sitting tucked into […]
Matt Carter Octet – Read Between The Lines(Ubuntu Music. Album review by Frank Griffith) Pianist and arranger/composer, Matt Carter’s debut CD, Read Between The Lines is a refreshing and ambitious work in […]
ZAV (Jesper Zeuthen / Jacob Anderskov / Anders Vestergaard) – Nocturnal(ILK Music ILK345, Review by Frank Graham) Uniting three generations of Danish improvisers, ZAV’s music is a visceral combination of heart-on-the-sleeve immediacy, […]
Itamar Borochov – Arba(Greenleaf Music. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Arba is the first new album in five years from the Jaffa-raised trumpeter Itamar Borochov. He’s been a New York City resident […]
Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Borrowed Roses(Top Stop Music. Album review by Liam Noble) There’s a certain melancholy to the title of this new solo recording by Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and it’s reflected in the […]
Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra – Family(We Jazz Records – Album review by Peter Slavid) Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra is a monster. And like all monsters it can be fierce, scary, and yet […]
Chris Ingham Quartet – Hoagy II(Downhome Records DOHO006 – Album review by Mark McKergow) Chris Ingham and his comrades dig further into the songwriting magic of Hoagy Carmichael and come up with […]
John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Steve Noble Fathom Parts 1, 2 and 3 (577 Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) 577 Records is a Brooklyn, New York based label formed by […]
Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Brownswood / Warner Music/ Cashmere Thoughts Recordings/ Nonesuch Records in the US. Album review by Dan Paton) A prodigiously talented drummer, Yussef Dayes was already performing with […]
Jeppe Zeeberg – Occasionally, Good Things Do Happen(Self Released. Album review by Peter Slavid) Almost exactly four years ago I reviewed Universal Disappointment, an exciting and quirky album by young Danish pianist […]
Liam Noble & Geoff Simkins: ‘Lucky Teeth’(FMR Records FMRCD659-0423. Album review by Frank Graham) It would be remiss not to remark on the album’s enigmatic title, an allusion to the bizarre exploits […]
John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy – Evenings at the Village Gate (Impulse! 00602455514189. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Another “new” album by John Coltrane, this recording was rediscovered in the New York Public Library, […]
Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons – Live At The Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records. Album review by John Ferguson (*)) It is no coincidence that Canadian pianist Kris Davis has become one of the […]
Jakob Dinesen/Anders Christensen/ Laust Sonne – Moonlight Drive (April Records. Album review by Jon Turney) A new saxophone trio release has to be a bit special to stand out from the hundreds […]
David Helbock – Austrian Syndicate(ACT 9974-2. Album review by Jon Carvell) If you’ve been following David Helbock over the last few years, you might have heard him in his much-travelled duo with French […]
