Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: The Complete Studio Recordings

Bill Crow | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Cranshaw | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Hank Jones | Roger Kellaway

When in 1954, Clifford Brown moved from Blue Note to Mercury his new label realised that they had acquired a...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015

Vincent Courtois: Love of Life

A stylishly leftfield French trio of cellist Courtois, ex-London based saxophonist Robin Fincker and Daniel Erdmann pays tribute to the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

João Donato: The Sound of Brazil

Stingy 30-minute playing time, no recording or personnel details, this has all the hallmarks of a lazy production, with Claus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble: A Trumpet in the Morning

Brad Jones | Drew Gress | EJ Allen | Eric McPherson | Howard Johnson | James Weidman | JD Parran | Marty Ehrlich | Matt Wilson | Ray Anderson

Marty Ehrlich's arrangements for his disciplined, brass-heavy 15-piece ensembles remind me of the genre-crossing blends that the experimental big bands...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2014

Dan Terry: The Swingingest Dance Band

Based in Hollywood in the early 1950s, trumpeter Terry led some exemplary big bands, continuing his work in NY in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Al Jarreau: Original Album Series: We Got By/Glow/All Fly Home/This Time/Breakin' Away

Al Jarreau

This 5-CD box set from Rhino brings together the first five studio albums of Al Jarreau’s extensive career. The fact...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2011

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

Warped Dreamer: Live at the Bimhuis

Arve Henriksen

This group, comprising Henriksen and Westerhus from Norway, and Dumoulin and Verbruggen from Belgium, are captured live on Amsterdam's famed...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Laura Zakian: Songs For Modern Lovers

Laura Zakian | Nic France | Simon Simon | Steve Lodder

Album number four from singer Laura Zakian is part homage to Frank Sinatra's classic 1956 album Songs for Swinging Lovers,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014

Wayne Krantz: Write Out Your Head

Chris Potter | Gabriella Anders | Keith Carlock | Orlando Fleming | Pino Palladino | Tim Lefebvre | Wayne Krantz | Will Lee

Krantz keeps the constant surprise going with a release which is at once more composed, in both mood and construction,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020