Tara Minton and Ed Babar: Two For The Road

Ed Babar | Lilia Iontcheva | Stan Sulzmann | Tara Minton

This fine duo album from Australian harpist/vocalist Tara Minton and London bassist Ed Babar celebrates a long-standing musical collaboration. Penned...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2022

Josh Nelson: Discoveries

This is already young West Coast-based pianist/composer Josh Nelson’s fifth album as leader and he puts an unexceptionally breezy LA...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Thumbscrew: Multicolored Midnight

Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

Anniversaries mean little musically, but there’s something reassuring in Thumbscrew marking a decade of collaboration with their seventh release together....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022

Merritt Brunies: Complete Recordings 1924-6

The 17 rare sides by New Orleansv cornetist Brunies, are complemented by ten additional 1920s rarities....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Stan Getz: Stan Getz Plays

Bill Crow | Bob Whitlock | Duke Jordan | Frank Isola | Jimmy Raney | Jimmy Rowles | Max Roach | Stan Getz

This replicates a number of tracks featuring the quintet that Getz toured with during 1952 (including guitarist Jimmy Raney and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!

Cecil Taylor

If the charge that Cecil Taylor sounds like an explosion in a piano factory is worth answering at all, then...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2012

Revival Room

Adam Fairhall | Johnny Hunter | Mark Hanslip

It’s hard to say why the organ trio has largely remained resistant to the lure of the avant-garde. Larry Young...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

The Filthy Six: The Fox

Amos Trice | Clarence Jones | Dupree Bolton | Elmo Hope | Frank Butler | Harold Land | Herbie Lewis | Leon Petties | Martin Banks

Led by trumpeter Nick Etwell, these slinky retro groovesters, featuring B3-er Pete Whitaker, work within very stylistic confines of funk-soaked...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

JD Allen Trio: Victory!

Gregg August | JD Allen | Rudy Royston

This reviewer has been singing the praises of JD Allen since his debut as a leader on Italy's Red Records’...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2012

Steven Herring: Introducing

Billy Drummond | Jay Anderson | Kirk Knuffke | Russ Lossing | Stephen Riley | Steven Herring

On Introducing, Julliard graduate and operatic baritone Steven Herring brings together 10 Great American Songbook classics, fronting an impressive band...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020