Dave Brubeck: Brandenburg Gate Revisited

Not in the same league as Bossa Nova USA, this features the quartet plus an orchestra playing arrangements by Howard...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Diego Pinera: Odd Wisdom

Ben Monder | Diego Pinera | Donny McCaslin | Scott Colley

Berlin-based drummer Diego Pinera, who hails from Montevideo, Uruguay, says he studied music in places where it came from –...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Juju: Chapter Two: Nia

Al-Hammel Rasul | Babatunde | Lon Moshe | Ngoma Ya Uhuru | Phil Branch | Plunky Nkabinde | Simbo

The recent visit of The Pyramids to British shores served as a timely reminder of just how joyously affirmative Afrocentric...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2012

Les Brown: Four Classic Albums

A month after Phono reissued the Jazz and Swing songbooks by this fine big band, Avid have managed to squeeze...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Lou Rawls with Les McCann: Stormy Monday

Leroy Vinegar | Les McCann | Lou Rawls | Ron Jefferson

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago with Sam Cooke (who was three years his elder) and the Staple...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Stuart Popejoy: Pleonoid

This bass guitarist's algorithmic-based composition lasts an entirely joyless 60 minutes, in spite of it featuring a few notable fellow...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Gradischnig/Raible/Home/Antoniou/Fishwick: Mo Is On: The Music of Elmo Hope Vol. 2

Claus Raible | Giorgos Antoniou | Herwig Gradischnig | Matt Home | Steve Fishwick

Fishwick’s note declares their collective hand in hoping that this album (and its Vol. 1 predecessor) will help increase awareness...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Gerry Weil: The Message

Gerry Weil

Keyboardist-composer Gerry Weil's second album The Message, recorded in 1971, was a well-kept secret among Venezuelan avant-garde jazz and rock...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk's Dream

Charlie Rouse | Ernie Henry | Frankie Dunlop | Gary Mapp | John Ore | Max Roach | Oscar Pettiford | Sonny Rollins | Thelonious Monk

The original album of eight tracks was Monk's first for the Columbia label, after being signed to work with producer...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018

Fred Frith: Storytelling: Live at Theater Gütersloh

Fred Frith | Lotte Anker | Sam D໨sler

This live recording is presented by the German Jazz Thing magazine as part of a series entitled ‘European Jazz Legends’...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018