Benny Goodman: Sextet Live at Basin Street East

A complete live concert by the same small group as on the Hi Fi album above, it's equally rewarding, though...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Bud Powell: 1962 Copenhagen

Brew Moore | Bud Powell | Don Byas | Jørn Elniff | Niels-Henning | Ørsted Pedersen

Amidst all the travails of the period before his early death in 1966, the year 1962 seems to have been...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Gary Burton: New Vibe Man in Town/Jazz Winds from a New Direction

Gary Burton | Gene Cherico | Hank Garland | Joe Benjamin | Joe Morello

Although he retired some two years ago from the teaching faculty of Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2012

Frank Rosolino: Turn Me Loose!

Urbane and smooth trombone from Rosolino with Victor Feldman's trio, but his vocals – oh dear! – how can someone...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Herb Hall: Old Tyme Modern

This is the album by Ed Hall's clarinet playing brother, and it perfectly catches his mixture of whimsicality and driving...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Alex Sipiagin: Slipstream

Alex Sipiagin | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Rudy Royston

Here's an album with an international flavour, the Russian-born Sipiagin and Kozlov, both now 53 and each domiciled in New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Bunny Berigan: Swingin' and Jumpin'

Another fi ne addition to Hep's Metronome historic broadcasts series, this shows what a brilliant band Berigan led from 1937-9,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Joni Mitchell: Love Has Many Faces

Joni Mitchell

Traversing a period from Blue (1971) to her 2007 album Shine, this four-disc, artist-curated boxed set contains some of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2015

Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Italian Circus Story

This reliably left-field Swiss jazz and improv label presents a homegrown rising young sax star's quintet with his creative and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Marius Neset Quintet: Pinball

Andreas Brantelid | Anton Eger | Ivo Neame | Jim Hart | Marius Neset | Petter Eldh

Such are the superlatives surrounding Neset that's it's hard to place him: precocious yoof? Harbinger of a new generation? Or,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015