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Latest Jazz & Blues Reviews

These are the latest Jazz & Blues reviews on BBC Music

Zoe Rahman - Kindred Spirits
A set melding its varied constituents into a deeply personal final form.
The Neil Cowley Trio - The Face of Mount Molehill
Cowley’s taste-making doesn’t always succeed, despite the vitality of his tunes.
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet
An endlessly absorbing third LP from the inspired jazz outfit.
Matthew Bourne - Montauk Variations
An expectations-confounding listen of solo piano experimentation.
Partikel - Cohesion
Piano-less trio delivers discreetly elegiac melodies alongside their stinging grooves.
Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian - Further Explorations
When this trio's performance, captured live in New York, clicks it is utterly magnificent.
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
Saturnian jazz godhead leaves Earth’s orbit.
Brad Mehldau Trio - The Art of the Trio – Recordings: 1996-2001
A trio that changed the landscape of small group jazz.
Keith Jarrett - Rio
Features performances which recall his career-defining early trio recordings.
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn - Wo!Man
A pronounced swing emerges as this fine collaborative set unfolds.
Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather
A curious album which requires several airings to reveal its secretive charms.
Nat Birchall - Sacred Dimension
A deeply sincere homage presented with an open heart full of passion.
Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid / Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank
A welcome addition to what eventually became Reid’s late-period re-emergence.
The Claudia Quintet +1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann - What Is the Beautiful?
A collaborative jazz/poetry affair that proves to be a piece of vital, living art.
Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
A notable addition to alto saxophonist Jones’ already impressive discography.
The Necks - Mindset
Expectations are set up only to be subverted on The Necks’ latest long-player.
Empirical - Elements of Truth
This London jazz quartet crashes irresistibly through the decades on album three.
Linley Hamilton - Taylor Made
A promising album from the trumpeter, which recognises its central force in its title.
Stuart McCallum - Distilled
Phrases resound with a shimmering vibration, underscored by sympathetic arrangements.
McCormack & Yarde Duo - Places and Other Spaces
The dazzling virtuosos tackle the ongoing tradition of the saxophone/piano dialogue.

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