Dave Young/Terry Promane: Octet Vol. 2

This cool-school Canadian octet, led by experienced bassist Dave Young and trombonist Terry Promane, offer easy going interpretations of tunes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Dave Brubeck Quartet: At the Sunset Center, Carmel 1955

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Joe Dodge | Paul Desmond

The release of this CD presents, for the first time ever, the complete concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet at...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

George Adams: Sound Suggestions

Dave Holland | George Adams | Heinz Sauer | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Wheeler | Richard Beirach

Not only is this vintage George Adams, from a time when his playing was at its most fluent and inventive,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2019

Dave Douglas Quintet: Time Travel

Dave Douglas | Jon Irabagon | Linda Oh | Matt Mitchell | Rudy Royston

If you enjoyed last year's Be Still, then Time Travel should rock your boat because the music comes from the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013

Dave Tucker and Pierpaolo Martino: Melophobia

Dave Tucker | Pierpaolo Martino

Of all the myriad duo formats in jazz and improvised music, the melding of electric guitar and acoustic double bass...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023

Dave Liebman and Phil Markowitz: Manhattan Dialogues

Dave Liebman | Phil Markowitz

While the perspicacious Liebman travels the world lecturing, performing and giving master classes, he leaves countless CDs in his wake,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2014

Kathrine Windfield Big Band: Aircraft

Danish pianist-composer Kathrine Windfield fronts a high-spirited contemporary swinging Euro jazz ensemble with Cannonball Adderley, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Dave Brubeck: Bossa Nova USA

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The classic Brubeck Quartet in 1962 with one of its most acclaimed discs, this is a good value reissue with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

The Dave Pike Quartet: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

This is the second album under Pike's own name, and interest in it centres primarily around the fact that the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016

Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: Weightless

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tom Challenger

Riff Raff emerged out of North London’s Loop Collective and E17 Jazz, for whom Manington was an original member. Their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025