Michael Gibbs and the NDR Big Band: Back In The Days

Christof Lauer | Claus Stötter | Fiete Felsch | Gary Burton | Ian Thomas | Ingolf Burkhardt | Lutz Büchner | Mark Mondesir | Martin France | Michael Gibbs

Appearing simultaneously with Gibbs' recently re-recorded arrangements for the NDR and Norma Winstone on Here's A Song For You, this...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2012

Edward Ricart Quartet: Chamaeleon

There's a feisty interaction from all concerned about this guitarist's new recording featuring tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmal in a rare...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country/If You Go

The first of these is Lee's big band masterpiece, with dazzling arrangements by Quincy Jones, making it essential, plus the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

New York All-Stars: Burnin' In London

Bernd Reiter | Darryl Hall | Eric Alexander | Harold Mabern

The stars on this sparkling quartet recording from London Soho's Pizza Express jazz club are two New Yorkers with a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2018

Scott Willcox Big Band: Go For It!

Some quietly accomplished outer-London jazz circuit players such as Chris Biscoe, Pete Hurt and Tony Woods take the solos on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Teddy Wilson Trio: Revisits the Goodman Years

Ed Thigpen | Jesper Lundgaard | Teddy Wilson

The then 68-year old Wilson was in Copenhagen in 1980 in what was for him a busy year, this also...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2020

Sarah Vaughan: The Early Years 1944-48

This early period of Vaughan’s work has often been covered in previous compilations, but this one is as good as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Billy Adamson | Binker Golding | Daniel Casimir | Sam Jones | Sarah Tandy

Binker & Moses helped set the UK New Jazz template, but Binker Golding has chafed against its tenets ever since....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2022

In the Country: Sunset, Sunrise

Morten Qvenild | Pal Hausken | Roger Arntzen

Although this is In the Country's fifth album, it marks their debut on the ACT label having previously recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

Harold Danko Quintet: Oatts & Perry III

Well known as the piano sideman for original West coast luminaries Lee Konitz and Chet Baker, Danko sticks with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013