Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle

Jarle Vespestad | Mats Eilartsen | Tord Gustavsen | Tore Brunborg

Concluding a six-album cycle, and the final one of three albums by the quartet within that overarching structure, this is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Eddie Daniels Roger Kellaway: Live at the Library of Congress

A typically high class set on an Americana theme from a symphony-meets-swing clarinet-piano duo split between songbook classics and originals....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Benjamin Koppel/Joe Lovano: The Mezzo Sax Encounter

Benjamin Koppel | Joe Lovano | Jonathan Blake | Kenny Werner | Scott Colley

Pitched midway between the soprano and alto, the mezzo sax combines the tonal qualities of both. It adds the alto's...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

The Vampires featuring Chris Abrahams: Nightjar

Alex Masso | Chris Abrahams | Jeremy Rose | Nick Garbett | Noel Mason

The Australian quartet The Vampires formed in 2009 and they’re now on their seventh album to date. The Vampires Meet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2023

Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries

Ben LaMar Gay | Tommaso Moretti

Ben LaMar Gay has spent years in Chicago's black bohemian underground, contributing cornet, synths, vocals and poetry to an evocative...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2023

Becki Biggins: The +ve (The Positive)

Becki Biggins

This follow-up to her 2005 solo debut First Love from 20-something singer, saxophonist and former NYJO member, Becki Biggins, is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2010

Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions

Anthony Braxton | Arthur Blythe | Azar Lawrence | Billy Harper | Buster Williams | Carl Allen | Cecil McBee | Cedar Walton | Eddie Moore | Frank Foster

Even for someone so gifted, Woody Shaw could easily have slipped off the radar were it not for the sheer...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013

Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um: The Stereo and Mono Versions

Booker Ervin | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Eric Dolphy | Horace Parlan | Jimmy Knepper | John Handy | Shafi Hadi | Ted Curson | Willie Dennis

Ah Um was widely acknowledged as Mingus's best release up to that point (Blues And Roots was recorded earlier but...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Curtis Fuller: Down Home

Al Hood | Chip Stephens | Curtis Fuller | Keith Oxman | Ken Walker | Todd Reid

Curtis Fuller accepted an invitation to record with the Mile High City's top cats last summer and this enjoyable session...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2012

BaBaZuLa: Hayvan Gibi

Mehmet Levent Akman | Osman Mura Ertel | Periklis Tsoukala | Ümit Adakale

In the time of Covid-19, this might be as close as you'll get to a genuine, flesh-and-blood show – a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2020