Various: Jazz On Film: French New Wave 1957-62

Jazz Messengers | Miles Davis | MJQ et al | various American and French musicians

This third 5-CD box set of further Jazz On Film recordings produced, selected and annotated by Selwyn Harris homes in...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Jamison Ross: Jamison

Alphonso Horne III | Chris Pattishall | Corcoran Holt | Cory Irvin | Dayve Stewart | Jamison Ross | Rick Lollar

Anyone who had the pleasure of hearing the captivating set by the great Carmen Lundy at last year's ReVoice! Festival...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2015

Bill Anschell: Rumbler

This is the Seattle-based pianist's longtime eclectic fusion-based trio playing an unexceptional set of originals and versions of tunes by...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Ernestine Anderson: Swings the Penthouse

Never quite as celebrated as Carmen McRae or Betty Carter, Ernestine has outlived her contemporaries, and this 1962 session shows...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Bobo Stenson Trio: Indicum

Anders Jormin | Bobo Stenson | Jon Fält

In 1998, Stenson recorded War Orphans that began a run of sublime trio recordings, the first three with Jormin on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Pablo Held: Elders

Inspired by his elders, the upcoming German pianist extends his better known trio setting and digs into influences that include...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

New Focus: On Song

Alina Bzhezhinska | Alyn Cosker | Andrew Robb | Betsy Taylor | Euan Stevenson | Ian Budd | Konrad Wiszniewski | Lorna Rough | Nicola Wiszniewska | William Chandler

Saxophonist Wiszniewski and pianist Stevenson comprise New Focus; their earlier album was 2012 Scottish Album of the Year and earned...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

Joe McPhee & Hamid Drake: Keep Going

Hamid Drake | Joe McPhee

Throughout a career lasting half a century, Joe McPhee has explored a multiplicity of strategies for improvisation – from original...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2019

Buddy Rich: … And His Buddies

The small groups that Rich led in 1960 before his late great big band are worth investigating and this is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Collective 4Tet: In Transition

Arthur Brooks | Heinz Geisser | Mark Hennen | William Parker

A sixth release in just over a decade makes the point that Collective 4Tet have been far from idle. The...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2010