Gerald Clayton: Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard

Gerald Clayton | Joe Sanders | Logan Richardson | Marcus Gilmore | Walter Smith III

In the same month that this set was recorded at New York's legendary Village Vanguard, West Coast resident Gerald Clayton...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2020

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley: Philosopher's Stone

Bobby Kapp | Brandon Lopez | Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | William Parker

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent: Quiet Is The Star

Alan Broadbent | Georgia Mancio

A follow-up to their outstanding Songbook album released in 2017, Quiet Is The Star presents a further nine beautifully crafted...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021

Tubby Hayes: Split Kick – Live In Sweden 1972

Alex Riel | Bengt Hallberg | Egil Johansen | Georg Riedel | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Staffan Abeleen | Tubby Hayes

Here's volume four of the Salvage-Solweig discoveries, a further cull from the cache of previously-unheard tapes held by the late...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2016

Chris Rand: Gathering

Andrew Noble | Ben Waters | Chris Rand | Dave Green | Derek Nash | Ed Benstead | Jason Reeve | Sam Leak | Shane Allessio

A self-confessed rock'n'roller who flirts with jazz and on this evidence does it well, Rand has put together a debut...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin’

Art Blakey | Bobby Timmons | Hank Mobley | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan

Now here's what you call an archival gold nugget!A rediscovered studio recording by the short-lived spring 1959 edition of Blakey's...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2020

Album Interview: Marius Neset & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Lion

Daniel Herskedal | Eirik Hegdal | Eivind Lønning | Erik Eilertsen | Erik Johannesen | Espen Berg | Gard Nilssen | Hanna Paulsberg | Ingrid Neset | Jovan Pavlovic

The 29-year-old Norwegian saxophonist/composer Marius Neset has been heralded as a new breed of big tenor players in a lineage...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Album Interview: Georgia Mancio: Silhouette

This third studio release from Georgia Mancio is as thoughtful, assiduously crafted and lovingly realized an album as you'll hear...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2014

Peter & Will Anderson: Clarinet Summit

David Wong | Ken Peplowski | Kenny Washington | Paquito D'Rivera | Peter Anderson | Tardo Hammer | Will Anderson

Here's the Danish-owned SteepleChase label dipping into the current New York swing scene rather than pursuing its more usual hard-bop...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2017

Fat John Sextet: Honesty: The Unreleased 1963 Studio Session

Andy Azaria | Bix Duff | Chris Pyne | Danny Thompson | Dave Castle | Fat John Cox | John Mumford | John Pritchard | Pete Lemer | Ray Warleigh

Who? Well, Jazzwise readers of a certain age may remember drummer Fat John Cox as a stalwart of the early...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2019