When Clifford Jordan reached Paris in March 1975, at the height of his mid-decade resurgence, a new Selmer Mark VII tenor saxophone awaited him. Night of the Mark VII is named after it. Recorded in ...

Enrico Rava’s latest release, Corners, lets its character unfold through the shared connections between the musicians. The little shifts of emphasis, the knowing exchanges, and the sense that nobody ...

ONMO’s In Time And Spirit is one of those records where the word collective comes before the names on the sleeve. Although guitarist and composer Jean de Talhouët provides all the compositions, this ...

We Float have released nothing since Let Go in November 2022, but the band has hardly been idle. In September 2023, they spent a week in Malmö rehearsing new material with Vindla String Quartet, ...

Andrew Toombs’ Alloy is one of those albums where the title tells you almost everything you need to know. An alloy is created by combining different metals to produce something stronger, and Toombs ...

Sometimes a jazz album gets the chemistry right. Stars Aligned is one of those records: four experienced musicians, nine carefully shaped compositions and a shared understanding of what makes straight ...

In October 2020, Jon Armstrong released Reabsorb, two continuous suites for a Los Angeles sextet laid out one to each side of the LP, each built on a short poem by his wife Erin Armstrong. Armstrong ...

On Friday 9 October, Geir Sundstøl plays in his home town. Halden, where he grew up in the district that gave his Spellemann-winning Brødløs its name, welcomes him back alongside Knut Reiersrud at ...

Rollo Doherty has been the voice at the front of ISLAND since the mid-2010s, a London guitar band formed in Oxford that made two albums for Frenchkiss and sold out KOKO with shimmering, wide-screen ...

Falling Backwards marks the debut full-length collaborative release from singer and songwriter Olly Him and producer Wyndham Earl who bring together a wonderful touch of folk-inspired soul for Wah Wah ...