Stan Getz: Complete Columbia Albums Collection

Albert Dailey | Andy Laverne | Billy Hart | Buster Williams | Chick Corea | Elvin Jones | Jimie Rowles | Jimmy Rowles | João Gilberto | Jurre Haanstra

It’s debatable whether you’d need to buy Getz’s Columbia albums until after you’ve acquired his output for all the other...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2013

The Sorcerers

Described as the Ethiopiques of the modern age, Leeds based band Sorcerers are indeed heavily influenced by Mulatu Astatke and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Gabriel Garrick Septet: Song for My Father

Gabriel Garrick | Joe Pettitt | Jon Stokes | Martin Hathaway | Martin Kolarides | Pat Davey | Peter James

Garrick is the custodian of his late father Mike’s considerable musical legacy but now he’s striking out for himself, his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2013

Roy Haynes: Togyu

Kenny Barron | Richard Davis | Roy Haynes | Teruo Nakamura

There's rare and then there are records like this: a limited vinyl release in Japan in 1975 that's never been...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2013

Monocled Man: Ex-Voto

Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons

The trumpeter-composer-programmer Rory Simmons is an original member of North London’s underground LOOP Collective, an organization that became very fertile...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Dave Liebman | Michel Delville | Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014

Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

A Columbia concept album from 1962, this saw McRae interpreting Broadway show songs with Buddy Bregman’s orchestra, augmented here by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021

WorldService Project/Alfie Ryner: Match & Fuse

Colm O'Hara | Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Derek Whyte | Gerald Gimenez | Guillaume Gendre | Guillaume Pique | Loris Pertoldi | Matt Jacobson | Neil Blandford

Led by keyboardist Dave Morecroft, London-based quintet WorldService Project are engaged in an ambitious quest to connect with like-minded fellow...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

Hely: Borderland

Are we in a new age of new age music? It unfortunately seems so, with Ronin's Nik Bärtsch-produced Hely, a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018