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

Chick Corea Akoustic Band with John Patitucci & Dave Weckl: Live

Chick Corea | Dave Weckl | John Patitucci

This album was already in the works at the time of Corea’s sudden and unexpected death on 9 February 2021....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

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

Kansas Smitty’s: We’re Not In Kansas Any More

Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Dylan Jones | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Laura Jurd | Will Cleasby

The opening ‘Bokeh’ is an immediate signal that this fifth studio album intends to move a long way from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2022

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

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

Jonah Jones: Jumpin' With Jonah + Jonah Jumps Again/Muted Jazz + Hit Me Again!

Four original Capitol LPs on 2 CDs presents the essence of Jonah Jones's slick quartet, which he turned into one...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Birdland 1951-52 & Newport 1955

Bob Bates | Chet Baker | Clifford Brown | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Herb Barman | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Max Roach | Paul Desmond

This is rare and valuable Brubeck; the sessions from Birdland were taken off the air by Boris Rose, who recorded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016