Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music/Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert

Bill Cosby | Bobby Jones | Charles McCracken | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dizzy Gillespie | Eddie Bert | Eddie Preston | Gene Ammons | Gerry Mulligan

Hard for me to be objective with this one, since the UK release of Let My Children coincided with the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014

Now Vs. Now: The Buffering Cocoon

Jason Lindner | Justin Tyson | Natasha Diggs | Panagiotis Andreou | Sasha Masakowski | Steve Wall

Jason Lindner's two-decade evolution from brainiac NYC keyboardist to synth lord has been fascinating to witness, not least as his...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2018

Tuule Kann – Jaak Sooäär: Teisele Kaldale/To the Other Side

Jaak Soäär | Tuule Kann

Probably best known outside his native Estonia as a member of the Dynamite Vikings, Sooäär has appeared on some 20...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

The Erskine Trio: Live in Italy

Alan Pasqua | Darek Oles | Peter Erskine

The American drummer Peter Erskine’s credits range from fusion-jazz complexities with Weather Report and Steps Ahead to the subtle piano...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2022

Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk

Connie Kay | Gerry Mulligan | Miles Davis | Percy Heath | Shadow Wilson | Thelonious Monk | Wilbur Ware | Zoot Sims

In the late 1950s Mulligan had a big following and was freelancing between labels, recording for Columbia and Verve among...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2018

Sandro Zerafa: More Light

As well as a founder member of the Paris Jazz Underground Collective and long-time Malta Jazz Fest director, the guitarist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Jonathan Barber & Vision Ahead: Poetic

Andrew Renfroe | Godwin Louis | Jonathan Barber | Matt Dwonszyk | Taber Gable

Some five years after their self-titled debut release, drummer Jonathan Barber and Vision Ahead’s fourth album rarely hits the heights,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2022

Nina Simone: The Colpix Singles

Nina Simone

Marking the 80th anniversary of Nina Simone's birth, this exceptional 2CD set contains all of the singles which Simone recorded...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2018

Sasha's Bloc: Heart on Fire

The band leader, bassist and songwriter Alex Gershman is influenced by the early 20th Century big band jazz era and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Jack Sels: Minor Works

An anthology by one of Belgium's most accomplished saxophonists whose death in 1970 aged just 48 means his surviving corpus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2018