Pee Wee Russell: Four Classic Albums Plus

Four LPs and an EP of the eccentric clarinettist make up this 2-CD set, showing Pee Wee at his idiosyncratic...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

The New Jazz Orchestra: Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe

Barbara Thompson | Dave Gelly | Derek Wadsworth | Derek Watkins | Dick Heckstall-Smith | Frank Ricotti | George Smith | Harry Beckett | Henry Lowther | Ian Carr

To those in the know this band has long been regarded as one of the best, if not the best...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Zack Brock: Serendipity

Aaron Goldberg | Matt Penman | Obed Calvaire | Zack Brock

Jazz violin playing has certainly changed over the years. My generation thought it couldn't get any better than Stéphane Grappelli...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2015

Jeff Williams: Bloom

Carmen Staaf | Jef Williams | Michael Formanek

The Ohio-born London-based drums veteran Jeff Williams is on a roll at the moment. Last year's excellent ‘live’ Lifelike, recorded...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Stan Getz: Stan Getz at Nalen

Daniel Jordan | Jan Johansson | Stan Getz | William Schiøpffe

These two albums are of a piece, the Riverside release documenting Getz's November 1959 appearance at Stockholm's Nalen ballroom and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012

Ken Fowser: Right On Time

Brian Charette | Ed Cherry | Joe Magnarelli | Ken Fowser | Steve Davis | Willie Jones III

Posi-Tone producer and label co-owner Marc Free seems to be a very loyal guy. He’s got some artistes – mainly...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2019

Jason Miles Kind of New: Miles to Miles: Live

Carlos Santana | Cindy Blackman Santana | Jason Miles

Jason Miles’ curriculum vitae precedes him. It's quite remarkable: he did the synth programming (uncredited) for Miles Davis on Tutu...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2023

Rob Thomsett: Yaraandoo & Hara

Alan Hodgkinson | James Rogers | Jenny Fielding | Jerry Machutta | John Gyffyn | John Hovell | Martin Fisher | Marto ‘Pud Uncle’ Thomsett | Mike Russell | Mitchell Burns

Canberra in the mid-1970s was not exactly what you would call a hotbed of countercultural activity. Built to order as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2017

Canadian Jazz Collective: Septology – The Black Forest Sessions

Bernd Reiter | Brian Dickinson | Derrick Gardner | Kirk MacDonald | Lorne Lofsky | Neil Swainson | Virginia MacDonald

Gardner, Kirk MacDonald (clarinettist Virginia is his daughter) and Lofsky came together at the behest of manager Judith Humenick to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

Dopolarians: Garden Party

Alvin Fielder | Chad Fowler | Chris Parker | Kelley Hurt | Kidd Jordan | William Parker

This happy-go-lucky, unpretentious session was recorded in New Orleans and the blues sits at the core of an album that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2020