Dave Gisler Trio: See You Out There

Dave Gisler | David Murray | Jaimie Branch | Lionel Friedli | Raffaele Bossard

Three releases, all featuring trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch, and all given extra – and unwelcome – piquancy by her sudden death...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Dave Mooney and the Hope of Home Band: Live at National Sawdust

Recorded Live in Brooklyn, guitarist Dave Mooney keeps good company with a contemporary quintet featuring drummer Brian Blade, but throughout...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra: Monday Night/Central Park North

Barry Galbraith | Benny Powell | Cliff Heather | Danny Moore | Eddie Bert | Eddy Daniels | Garnett Brown | Jerome Richardson | Jerry Dodgion | Jimmy Cleveland

In jazz legend, this band is one of the great jorchestras and the Monday Nightalbum, cut live at the band’s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Dave Pietro: Hypersphere

Saxophonist Pietro heads a good quality large ensemble (that includes pianist Gary Versace and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin) through an airily...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin: Brasil

Bruno Migotto | Celso Fonseca | Chico Pinheiro | Dave Grusin | Edu Ribiero | Gregoire Maret | Ivan Lins | Lee Ritenour | Marcelo Costa | Tatiana Parra

Fifty years or so after they started recording together, including plenty of Brazilian-influenced music, Ritenour and Grusin set off last...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024

Agile Experiments: Alive in the Empire

Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | John Edwards

Agile Experiments’ vinyl-only releases emphasise the Dave De Rose’s collective’s ethos since their 2015 start, fiercely improvising to curious Brixton...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Dave Okumu: Knopperz

Guitarist-singer Okumu, a Mercury prize nominated artist from London’s F-ire Collective, follows his own understatedly inventive and spacious, genre-twisting vein...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

In 1958, the Brubeck Quartet undertook an exhausting tour, first in Europe and then, sponsored by the US State Department,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity

Carmen Rothwell | Dave Adewumi | Dave Douglas | Fabian Almazan | Joey Baron | Mathew Stevens

Perhaps it's easier to put aside the Dizzy Gillespie associations.Douglas only addresses a couple of Dizzy tunes, although echoes and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Gavin Barras Quintet: Day of Reckoning

Corey Mwamba | Dave Walsh | Ed Jones | Gavin Barras | Steve Plews

Cumbria-born double bassist Gavin Barras composed the material for this debut recording in the back of a car returning from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012