Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Jimmy Bond | Nina Simone

Originally released as Little Girl Blue on the Bethlehem label in June 1958, what is perhaps most remarkable about Nina...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Zalla (Piero Umiliani): Suspense

Piero Umiliani used the alias M Zalla to divide his prolific work as a soundtrack composer from other esoteric, less...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Ergo: If Not Inertia

Brett Sroka | Mary Halvorson | Sam Harris | Sebastian Kruger | Shawn Baltazor

Trombonist Brett Sroka may be an Ellington freak but he is also a film composer and a member of psych...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2012

The Amazing Keystone Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf & Jazz

Doctor Who giving a lesson about jazz? Well in a way. Here's David Tennant narrating an imaginatively arranged and fun...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

David Fiuczynski: Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian MicroJam!

Alex ‘BisQuit’ Bailey | David Fiuczynski | Helen Sherrah-Davies | Jake Sherman | Justin Schorstein | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Ular Artun | Yazhi Guo

How about this for a potentially over-crowded concept: an album jointly dedicated to 20th century classical composer, Olivier Messiaen, and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2016

Album Interview: Nat Birchall: Mysticism of Sound

Nat Birchall

Saxophonist Nat Birchall is best known for working with musicians such as pianist Adam Fairhall and creating deeply felt acoustic...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2020

Rich Perry: Nocturne

On his 21st release with the reliably straight ahead Danish label, the vibrant-toned harmonically imaginative, longtime Village Vanguard house saxophonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Joe Williams: That Kind of Woman

It's hard to believe the slushy, sentimental singer here is the same man who so memorably worked with Basie, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Colosseum: Live ‘71/Live at the Montreux International Jazz Festival1969/Live at The Boston Tea Party/Ruisrock, Turku, F

Jon Hiseman

Some lightweights may suggest life's too short to hacksaw through several hours of epically hairy (except for Hecsktall-Smith) jazz rock....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2020

Shelly Manne: 2-3-4

André Previn | Coleman Hawkins | Eddie Costa | George Duvivier | Hank Jones | Leroy Vinnegar | Shelly Manne

Originally a one-off project for Impulse, this sees Shelly stepping out of his LA comfort zone to briefly return to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013