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 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

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

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

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

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 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

Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet/Outback/Moon Germs

Airto Moreira | Buster Williams | Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Elvin Jones | Herbie Hancock | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Farrell | John McLaughlin | Stanley Clarke

Joe Farrell is most frequently name-checked as a founding member of Chick Corea's Return to Forever, appearing on the 1972...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Hejira: Live at the Cockpit

Chris Eldred | Dave Jones | Hattie Whitehead | Marc Cecil | Ollie Weston | Pete Oxley | Rick Finlay

As readers will recall from February’s Jazzwise, Hejira are a seven-piece British band dedicated to playing the music of Joni...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

Dave Liebman – Steve Dalachinsky: The Fallout Of Dreams

Dave Liebman | Richie Beirach | Steve Dalachinsky

Growing up in 1960s New York, a teenage Steve Dalachinsky caught the beat bug and took up his pen in...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2014