Mick Goodrick and Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables & Ferns, ECM ****

A one off from the 1980s released for the first time.

Your Brother’s Keeper, Gary Bartz, Where Rivers Meet, Brownswood Recordings ★★★★☆ recommended

A groundbreaking meeting of minds music of the spheres

Moyses Dos Santos’ Maria

Positivity personified

Helen Sung Big Band, Oracles, Sunnyside **** recommended

Big bands haven't gone away, you know

Carsten Dahl, Komponistens Suite, Musique Phénoménale ****

Three as 1

Eleonora Strino, Lumithia, CAM JAZZ **** recommended

Guitar heaven from Eleonora Strino playing solo and mainly her own tunes. There's also a gem…

Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, Nonesuch ***1/2

Spare and haunting, there's an elegiac sense to this new collaboration between two leading American experimentalists.

Jody Sternberg, Sea of Love, Bonsaï Music ***1/2

Likeable lounge jazz

Ron Carter, Yotam Silberstein, Duets, Jojo ****1/2

A whole lotta love

Trish Clowes, Try Me, Stoney Lane **** recommended

Two buses have arrived at once this year where saxophonist Trish Clowes is concerned. Both go…

Immy Churchill, Songs That Shaped Me, Vortex Downstairs ****

A rising vocals star finds her own path

Anthony Joseph, The Ark, Heavenly Sweetness ****

Another strong showing from London scene British Trinidadian poet, vocalist, singer-songwriter Anthony Joseph and his kicking…

Marvin Muoneké, Mark Lockheart, Gary Crosby, Alex Webb and Winston Clifford – Cadogan Hall **** recommended

A lunchtime appointment themed around the timelessness of Coltrane and Hartman proves charming and thoughtfully spun…

Andrea Di Biase’s Oltremare, Vortex ***1/2

Persuasive originals win the day.

Kat Eaton, What Happens Now, Reason and Rhyme ***1/2

Spolit for choice there's so much here - Kat Eaton delivers

Johanna Summer, Dialoge, ACT ****

A series of remarkable classically inspired two piano encounters prove full of grace. There's a remarkable…

Paul Dunmall, Afraid to Speak, Discus Music **** recommended

There are lots of layers to this tender, edgy in places, gem from English free-jazz veteran…

Nils Berg and the Norrbotten Big Band, Paid To Cry, Hoob Records **** recommended

Tapping into the Swedish blues via a tender big band approach