Carmell Jones: The Remarkable/Business Meeting

Two classic albums by the young K.C. born trumpeter, also worth celebrating for Harold Land on tenor and Gerald Wilson’s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Tubby Hayes: Split Kick – Live In Sweden 1972

Alex Riel | Bengt Hallberg | Egil Johansen | Georg Riedel | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Staffan Abeleen | Tubby Hayes

Here's volume four of the Salvage-Solweig discoveries, a further cull from the cache of previously-unheard tapes held by the late...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2016

Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

Matana Roberts

The third installment of Roberts' Coin Coin series, which, although too early in her career to be called a defining...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Mary Halvorson Quintet: Bending Bridges

Ches Smith | John Hebert | Jon Irabagon | Jonathan Finlayson | Mary Halvorson

2010's Saturn Sings, the first quintet record from Brooklyn-based Mary Halvorson, was very good indeed but Bending Bridges is even...

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

The New Woody Shaw Quintet: Vol. 1 At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall - Hamburg 1982

Mulgrew Miller | Stafford James | Steve Turre | Tony Reedus | Woody Shaw

Two events recorded five years apart by two entirely different line-ups. To set the record straight, the 1976-77 dates were...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Chris Rand: Gathering

Andrew Noble | Ben Waters | Chris Rand | Dave Green | Derek Nash | Ed Benstead | Jason Reeve | Sam Leak | Shane Allessio

A self-confessed rock'n'roller who flirts with jazz and on this evidence does it well, Rand has put together a debut...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Mike LeDonne: It's All Your Fault

The veteran keyboardist LeDonne and his 20-year old Grover quartet joins forces with a post-bop big band for a swingin'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Christine Tobin: Sailing to Byzantium

Christine Tobin | Dave Whitford | Gabriel Byrne | Gareth Lockrane | Kate Shortt | Liam Noble | Phil Robson

In this beautiful collection of songs based on the poetry of WB Yeats, vocalist Christine Tobin has created an unqualified...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2012

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1955 – 1966

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Benjamin | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Norman Bates | Paul Desmond

This is a valuable set, since original vinyl Brubeck albums have been steadily increasing in value for a while now,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

James Brandon Lewis: No Filter

Anthony Pirog | James Brandon Lewis | Luke Stewart | Nicholas Ryan Gant | PSO The Earth Tone King | Warren G Crudup III

An entirely fitting title for music where raw and unrefined is anything but a failing. Keyboard-less, chord-less and largely changes-less,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017