Martin Taylor and Alan Barnes: Two For The Road

As with his album with pianist Dave Newton, this has Woodville's Alan Barnes close up and personal in a duo...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2012

Stan Getz with Mose Allison: The Soft Swing

Addison Farmer | Frank Isola | Fred Benito | Jerry Segal | Jug Taylor | Mose Allison | Paul Motian | Stan Getz | Willie Stump Jr

Verve's The Soft Swing turned out to be the only studio recording by this then-new Getz quartet combination with Allison,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

Jacob Artved: Live at Montmartre Featuring Louis Hayes

David Wong | Jacob Artved | Jep Patton | Louis Hayes

Here's a delicious meeting of spirits: irrepressible and ridiculously young Dane pitched in with the surreally iconic drummer, Louis Hayes....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Hetty and The Jazzato Band: Back in The Swing of Things

Alessandro Cimaschi | Fabrizio Bonacci | Hetty Loxston | Riccardo Castellani | Richard Muscat | Stephanie Legg

Classically-and-jazz trained bi-lingual vocalist Loxston and the Anglo-Italian Jazzato Band began to perform together in 2016, appearing at festivals here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2021

Leon Thomas: The Creator 1969-73 The Best Of The Flying Dutchman Masters

Baba Feme | Bernard Purdie | Billy Cobham | Billy Harper | Cecil McBee | Cornell Dupree | David Spinozza | Grady Tate | James Spaulding | Joe Beck

Following the excellent anthologies of Gil Scott-Heron and Lonnie Liston Smith, Ace/BGP continues its celebration of the seminal Flying Dutchman...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Charles Gayle Trio: Christ Everlasting

Charles Gayle | Klaus Kugel | Ksawery Wojcinski

2006's Time Zones, one of the tenor saxophonist's last notable releases was a solo piano set, and this spirited live...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2016

Giuseppi Logan: More

Don Pullen | Eddie Gomez | Giuseppi Logan | Milford Graves | Reggie Johnson

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary edition of reeds player Giuseppi Logan's More album (not to be confused with the Pink...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2014

Jowee Omicil: Love Matters!

Jowee Omicil

Haitian saxophonist Omicil has served notice of a substantial talent on previous releases such as Roots and Let’s Bash without...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

The Nicola Farnon Quartet: So Farnon – So Good!

Dave Newton | Jim Mullen | Nicola Farnon | Steve Brown

Kicking off with a superb arrangement of Kern and Hammerstein's oft-recorded ‘The Song Is You’, this seventh CD from vocalist,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2016

Joëlle Léandre & Elisabeth Harnik: Tender Music

Elisabeth Harnik | Joëlle Léandre

This debut duo recording from Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik and veteran French doublebassist, Joëlle Léandre, is aptly named. There's a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2018