Dave Lee: Under the Influence

Dave O’Higgins | Kieron Garrett | Mike Pratt | Peter Cumber

Yorkshire-born horn virtuoso Dave Lee is a prominent member of the Michael Nyman Band, as well as having performed at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2016

Curtis Stigers: Gentleman

Austin Beede | Curtis Stigers | David Piltch | Doug Yowell | Jody Ferber | John “Scrapper” Sneider | Larry Goldings

This follow-up to his fabulous 2017 live album with the Danish Radio Big Band, One More for the Road, finds...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Bill Stewart Trio: Band Menu

Bill Stewart | Larry Grenadier | Walter Smith III

Sonny Rollins’ trio albums remain the gold standard for sax and rhythm trios, and there are hints of the colossus’s...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Feb/2019

Dave Green Trio with Evan Parker: Raise Four

Dave Green | Evan Parker | Gene Calderazzo | Iain Dixon

The radio broadcaster Jez Nelson refers to Dave Green as ‘British Jazz Royalty’ in the liner notes of this archive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

KGQ: Under The Influence

Dave O’Higgins | Kieron Garrett | Mike Pratt | Peter Cumber

This is the second quartet album from Garrett and crew. It sounds like a band that has honed its craft...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: November/2016

Chris Barber's Jazz Band/Ken Colyer's Jazzmen/Mike Cotton Jazzmen: The Radio Luxembourg Sessions The 208 Rhythm Club – V

Chris Barber | Derek Teale | Dick Smith | Eddie Smith | Geoff Cole | Gerry Williams | Graham Burbidge | Ian Wheeler | Jimmy Garforth | John Bastable

It turns out that Radio Luxembourg, then the commercial alternative to the BBC, ran their 208 Rhythm Club for some...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: Loneliness Road

Bobby Previte | Iggy Pop | Jamie Saft | Steve Swallow

When Saft and his trio went into the recording studios in 2014 to record The New Standard its success was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

The Shift: Songs from Aipotu

Dieter Mandersheid | Frank Gratowski | Martin Blume | Philip Zoubek | Thomas Lehn

At first glance, this is a collection of sturdy, square-jawed, acoustic Euro-improv from a handful of German heavyweights. But it...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2011

Nancy Wilson: Four Classic Albums Plus

A marvellous tribute to one of the great singers, less-well known here in the UK than in the US as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Tom Syson: Different Coloured Days

David Ferris | Jonathan Silk | Pete Hutchinson | Tom Barford | Tom Syson

Tom Syson, the trumpet lead in the Birmingham Jazz Orchestra, opened his account as leader in an assertive manner with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019