Sarah Vaughan/Count Basie Orchestra: Send in the Clowns

This 1981 collaboration finds Vaughan in fine if slightly muffled form, and like her 1960s Roulette collaboration, backed by the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Jan Garbarek: Danser

Arild Andersen | Bobo Stenson | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Palle Danielson | Terje Rypdal

This new box set in ECM's Old & New Masters series marks a welcome return to the catalogue of Sart...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Fred Frith/Hans Koch: You Are Here

At the vanguard of the 1980s downtown movement, Frith's imaginative guitar treatments still sound fresh here as he merges with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Tohpati Ethnomisson: Mata Hati

The fusion's all wrong on this Indonesian guitarist's crass mix of overstated Gamelan rhythms and jazz rock....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Andreas Schaerer/Lucas Niggli: Arcanum

Recorded in the Loft club in Cologne, here's a freshly imaginative German duo of voice, electronics and percussion calling on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

European Jazz Trio

Veteran German saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Ali Haurand and Czech flautist Jiri Stivin stay closer to a raw, lyrical traditional...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius

Billy Higgins | Don Cherry | Don Payene | Ornette Coleman | Percy Heath | Red Mitchell | Shelly Manne | Walter Norris

This set, combining Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman and Tomorrow Is The Question! The New Music of Ornette...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022

Stan Getz: The Master

Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Paul Chambers | Red Garland | Wilbur Harden

This is a reissue of the 1982 album of the same name which first appeared on vinyl in Columbia's Contemporary...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Sebastiano Meloni, Paul Dunmall, Sebastiano Dessanay, Mark Sanders: Pictures Of A Quartet

Mark Sanders | Paul Dunmall | Sebastiano Dessanay | Sebastiano Meloni

This is a remarkably successful and coherent free jazz/free improvisation set. Dunmall and Sanders will be familiar names to Jazzwise...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Michael Occhipinti and Shine On: The Universe of John Lennon

Elizabeth Shepherd | Kevin Turcotte | Mark Kelso | Michael Occhipinti | Roberto Occhipinti

Featuring the voices of Elizabeth Shepherd, Yvette Tollar, Dominic Mancuso, Denzal Sinclaire and Laila Biali, paired with the talents of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2012