Melody Gardot: Live in Europe

Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Bob McCracken | Cozy Cole | Earl Hines | Jack Teagarden | Louis Armstrong | Marty Napoleon | Sid Catlett | Trummy Young

Recorded at 10 different European venues over a five-year period and released as a 2CD digipak and 3LP set, this...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2020

Oscar Peterson Trio: The Trio Live From Chicago

Ed Thigpen | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown

Though the covers of the accompanying booklets are almost identical, the four bonus tracks on this public domain release are...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012

Empirical: Elements of Truth

George Fogel | Lewis Wright | Nathaniel Facey | Shaney Forbes | Tom Farmer

Since winning the EBU Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007, Empirical seem to have undergone a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Marty Paich and the Modern Touch: The Broadway Bit

A smaller band, with the genius of Scott LaFaro in the rhythm section and Art Pepper still shining in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Rick Simpson: Klammer

Dave Hamblett | George Crowley | Michael Chillingworth | Ralph Wyld | Rick Simpson | Tom Farmer

Klammer is the hugely impressive sophomore recording of originals and ensemble arrangements by the gifted 2008 Guildhall graduate and pianist-keyboardist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual

Jennifer Curtis | Tyshawn Sorey

Such is his unflaggingly prolific output, that it has been hard to keep up with Sorey in the last decade....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020

The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond: The Complete Storyville Broadcasts

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Herb Barman | Joe Dodge | Lloyd Davis | Paul Desmond | Ron Crotty | Wyatt Ruther

The three CDs that comprise The Complete Storyville Broadcasts were recorded between February 1952 and July 1954. Thus they contain...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

Count Basie: Basic Basie

The 1969 Basie band recorded for MPS has a looser rhythm section than heretofore (with Norman Keenan and Harold Jones)...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Herbie Mann: Original Album Series

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Elliott Zigmund | Joe LaBarbera | Larry Schneider | Marc Johnson | Toots Thielemans

For years, Herbie Mann had been sneaking by without really finding his true niche. That was until 1963 when he...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016

Dave O'Higgins: It's Always 9.30 In Zog

Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom

The saxophonist points out in his brief liner note that this has been his regular working group for the last...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2017