Through its ongoing collaboration with BBE Music and the custodians of the Strata Records legacy, 180 Proof Records owner DJ Amir once again digs deep into the archives of Detroit’s most mythologised ...

I do like a bit of conceptual music/art. I do like some spaces between the notes. And I do like a bit of free jazz. But ...

Mystic Suite”, the stunning new release from the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, completes a sweeping conceptual arc that began with ...

Since its creation as a trio in 1966, Soft Machine has pioneered psychedelic, progressive, and jazz-rock, emerging as a ...

There’s real alchemy at work on MEZZO, the latest release from saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Geoffrey Keezer. Forged ...

Longineau Parsons’ little-known record receives a much-welcome reissue via the California-based specialist label Luv N’Haight ...

Taupe have always thrived on volatility, but waxing | waning feels less like a collection of compositions, and more like a live wire dropped into a steelworks. The Glasgow trio return on Minority ...

In 1971, while electric jazz was reshaping the landscape in New York and London, a quietly daring chapter was unfolding in Buenos Aires. Quinteplus is not a derivative footnote; it is evidence that ...

By 1973, Tim Maia didn’t need to prove he could make hits. His previous self-titled album had already cracked the Brazilian Top 10 alongside giants like Gal Costa and Chico Buarque, while American ...

With “ReSet”, guitarist David Chevallier once again confirms his status as one of the most original and quietly adventurous figures on the French jazz scene. Joined by long-time collaborators ...

There is something profoundly moving about hearing lost music return to the light. “Quintessence”, the newly issued collaboration between John Taylor and Stan Sulzmann, is exactly that kind of ...

If ever a trio embodied the exploratory yet distinctly British spirit of contemporary jazz, it is Shapeshifter. The eponymous group brings together three of the UK’s most imaginative and responsive ...