Benjamin Moussay: Promontoire

Benjamin Moussay

The apparent story behind this recital is intriguing. A sideman on albums by Louis Sclavis and others, and a prolific...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

Herbie Mann: Today!

Andrew Love | Barry Beckett | Bruno Carr | Carlos Oliver Nelson | Dave Pike | David Hood | Earl May | Ed Logan | Eddie Hinton | Herbie Mann

Whereas Stan Getz reluctantly bowed to the inescapable truth that his Bossa Nova repertoire elevated him to international Top 40...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2014

Trio 3 + Geri Allen: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams Live At Birdland New York

Andrew Cyrille | Geri Allenn | Oliver Lake | Reggie Workman

Mary Lou Williams is always a worthwhile subject for investigation if not celebration and what can rightfully be described as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Yazz Ahmed: Finding My Way Home

Alam Nathoo | Chris Fish | Corrina Silvester | George Hart | Janek Gwizdala | Jay Darwish | John Bailey | Laurence Cottle | Shabaka Hutchings | Simon Hale

Now in her latetwenties, Yazz Ahmed only started playing jazz on the trumpet in her late teens. You aren't made...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Ronny Graupe: Spoom

A young Berlin-based guitarist and his trio play a gently introspective, yet sharply rhythmic contemporary jazz that has an engaging...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Nat King Cole & The Quincy Jones Big Band: Live in Paris

André ‘Déde’ Ceccarelli | Enrico Pieranunzi | Hein Van De Geyn

This meeting between jazz greats Nat King Cole and Quincy Jones, recorded at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, in 1960, came...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Two bites of the Cherry: Don Cherry: Cherry Jam

Atli Bjørn | Benny Nielsen | Don Cherry | Gian Piero Pramaggiore | Mogens Bollerup | Moki Cherry | Nana Vasconcelos | Simon Koppel

Recorded in Copenhagen, prior to the creation of his defining Complete Communion album for Blue Note, Cherry Jam is a...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: March/2021

Joe McPhee & André Jaume: Nuclear Family

André Jaume | Joe McPhee

Recorded six years apart, here's Joe McPhee in two radically different performance situations. With French saxophonist André Jaume he reinvents...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Gil Evans: Great Jazz Standards/New Bottle Old Wine

The two brilliant and essential Blue Note albums Gil made in 1958-9 reissued as a twofer, rewriting old standards on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010

Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

Barbara Thompson | Barry Guy | Brian Smith | Bud Parkes | Dave Clempson | Dave Gelly | Dave Greenslade | Derek Wadsworth | Dick Hart | Dick Heckstall-Smith

With Humphrey Lyttelton's endearingly stumbling announcements and a veritable fantasy football league of early 1970s jazz musicians associated with various...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2017