Transatlantic free-jazz trio in which three seasoned improvisers operate as one listening organism: Darin Grey (upright bass, preparations, electronics), Janne Tuomi (drums, percussion), and Alan Wilkinson (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, voice). The album is titled ‘Quartet’, as the fourth voice, saxophonist Jone Takamäki, was originally meant to join the group for both a live performance and the studio session. He couldn’t make the recording, and sadly, he passed away in the summer of 2025. Quartet inevitably became a memorial piece: a way to honour a deeply valued fellow musician, his sound, and his life. If you like adventurous, free, spiritual jazz music, this is for you!

The new record from Edition Records founder Dave Stapleton is a beat-based jazz album, shaped by rhythmically driven, loop-focused production with the feel of a live band. Quiet Fire sits in the space where jazz, instrumental beats and atmospheric electronica meet. Highly recommended to fans of eclectic experimental jazz, but a rewarding listen for everyone else as well.

Greg Foat doesn’t release dud albums or even a dud track. His latest Impressions of Samos is a gorgeous, expansive “love letter” to the Greek island of Samos, recorded by Foat while on holiday. Across eleven tracks, you’ll fall in love with Foats’ mix of authentic Greek modal folk-jazz, meeting contemporary jazz and evocative soundscapes. Joining Foat on the record are Sokratis Votskos and The Giorgos Pappas Trio. Highlights include Flasaki, Karsilamas, The Golden Jackals of Samos, and Eikosiefta, Brilliant yet again.

This album gets better and better and better with each listen. On Street Druid, Ben Vince merges acoustic, manipulated, and electronic sounds using saxophone, synth, voice, guitars, and a drum machine, and features a drum kit from Mercury-nominated artist Moses Boyd. There are countless details, grooves, textures, and moods. It is simultaneously tender, psychedelic, and fierce. It does not conform to any specific genre or category. All that in just under 45 minutes.

An album that’s been sitting in my must-listen pile for a while. I’ve finally managed to listen to Church Of, and I am glad that I did! This is Church Car’s debut album, and it really mixes up the influences. It’s got a bit of psychedelic rock, some minimalist rock, and a little microtonal jazz, laced with field recordings. With everything feeling tense and heavy these days, Church Of is a small escape: headphones on, eyes closed, and press play on thirty minutes of polyrhythmic goatherd meditations from Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone waiting to lift the weight a little.