Album review: Andrew Hill Smoke Stack Pianist Andrew Hill's appealing if challenging Blue Note album from 1966 takes no prisoners, you'd better be into improv and wandering airs. Music • 10 Sep
Review: Cursed Murphy Versus The Resistance Wexford bard and his killer band deliver a protest album for our times. It's not big on laughs Music • 29 Jul
Review: Just Coolin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers This previously unreleased studio album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers from 1959 should be Mannah from heaven for lovers of curiously easeful hard ... Features • 03 Sep
Album review: Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata The final album as leader from trumpeter Kenny Dorham, reissued on vinyl from the original 1964 release, thrives on tremulous sweetness and a flighty but ... Kenny Dorham • 02 Sep
Album review: Jimmy Heath Love Letter This ain't no bebop disco, this ain't no Roland Kirk meditation or Sonny Rollins blast-out, but rather an elegant treatment of eight ballads from saxophonist ... Jimmy Heath Love Letter • 01 Sep
Gerald Clayton Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard is mostly an energetic, if not cerebral post-Bop set, with occasional relief from the frenzy, in quiet and wistful ... Features • 18 Aug
Album review: Dominic Ingham Role Models It's a brave man who launches his violin-led jazz album. But then again, it's brave man who releases any jazz album and Dominic Ingham's debut ... Features • 11 Aug
Album review: Elvin Jones - Mr Jones Mr Jones is a lively, at times symphonic experience on which the esteemed drummer is joined by a host of accomplished sidemen to create a ... Music Reviews • 15 Jul
Review: Neil Young - Homegrown Long hailed as the missing link in Young's "ditch trilogy", the album he shelved in favour of Tonight's The Night finally gets a release Music • 25 Jun
Review: Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways There's treasure for Dylanologists and Dylanttantes alike on Bob Dylan's extraordinary 39th album Music • 22 Jun
Album review: John Scofield Swallow Tales There is something endearingly low-key about veteran guitarist John Scofield's readings of old Steve Swallow tunes, and to make it all the more of an ... Music Reviews • 14 Jun
Album review: Jon Balke Discourses The Norwegian musician, Jon Balke, born 1955, returns with a series of piano exercises, some of them improvised and ranging from the astringent to the ... Music Reviews • 11 Jun
Cyrillus Kreek The Suspended Harp of Babel The many devotees of the music of Arvo Pärt should logically be interested in the music of fellow Estonian Cyrillus Kreek who was a meticulous ... Music Reviews • 01 Jul
Album review: Angular Blues - Muthspiel, Colley, Blade The prolific Austrian guitarist, Wolfgang Muthspiel (born 1965) returns with his third album for ECM in three years, recorded with an organic-sounding, close-knit ensemble comprising ... Music Reviews • 10 Jun
Fake Names the real deal on life-affirming punk record Choosing a favourite song proves the nicest of dilemmas, moving on to listen to something else is tougher still. Music Review • 08 Jun
Album review: Art Taylor AT's Delight First issued in 1960, and now reissued on vinyl, AT's Delight features at least three stellar presences of the period, pianist Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, ... Music Reviews • 09 Jun
John Sheahan reels in the years on debut solo album The man with one of the kindest faces has smiled upon us with one of the sweetest albums. Album Review • 24 Apr
Pearl Jam dynamite despair on huge-hearted Gigaton The worst time to release a new record turns out to be exactly when it's most needed, with Pearl Jam's 11th album dual-powered by another ... Music Review • 31 Mar
