Count Basie: The Complete Basie Rides Again

The early ‘New Testament’ band in 1952 (including a selection of small groups drawn from the ranks) is a harbinger...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Ketil Bjørnstad: Songs From the Alder Thicket

Ketil Bjørnstad

There is something of the eternal storyteller about Bjørnstad, whether in literature or music, with his seemingly endless desire to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012

Gustaf Ljunggren with Skúli Sverrison: Floreana

Gustaf Ljunggren | Skúli Sverrison

Expansively ambient with limpid, folk-like melodies, this could be ECM getting it together in the country. “I listened inside, and...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2022

Howard McCrary: Moments Like This

With a smooth voice, and a sophisticated blues piano style, Ohio-born Howard McCrary was a star on the 1990s Birmingham...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Jim Beard/Jon Herington: Chunks and Chairknobs

Pianist Beard and guitarist Herington are veteran Steely Dan touring fusionists, and come together here in a good-humoured, unelaborate duo...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Trio Con Tromba

Bengt Hallberg | Georg Riedel | Jan Allan

Trio Con Tromba was, with good reason, considered Sweden's finest jazz ensemble of the 1980s. A world class “chamber jazz”...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Ziggy Elman: Boppin’ With Zig

Despite the title (from a 1949 single) there’s no bebop here, just Elman’s personal brand of decisive swing trumpet, imposing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

John Sinclair and Steve Fly: Mohawk

John Sinclair | Steve Fly

This CD celebrates veteran jazz, rock and second generation Beat poet John Sinclair's holy trinity of early beboppers: Parker, Gillespie...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: August/2014

Dusko Goykovich: Slavic Mood

Andy Scherrer | Ben Thompson | Dusko Goykovich | Joe Nay | Vince Bendetti

The pioneering trumpeter-composer Dusko Goykovich was one of the first jazz musicians to leave his home in the former Yugoslavia...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Aruán Ortiz and Michael Janisch Quintet: Banned in London

Aruán Ortiz | Greg Osby | Michael Janisch | Raynald Colom | Rudy Royston

The Wisconsin-born Janisch has proved himself a tireless catalyst for exchanges between New York and European musicians on the open-minded...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013