Hector Quartet: Uncharted

Chris Gale | Chris Wallace | Jeff McLeod | Ted Quinlan

A Canadian collective with cool associations (the Breckers, Dave Holland), Uncharted is their debut, if now one from a rather...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2021

Dizzy Gillespie/Dave Brubeck: Live at Newport

For Gillespie fans the prospect of three tracks from Have Trumpet Will Excite plus an extended blues played by the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Hansu-Tori: An Improvised Escape

Adam Jackson | Chris Young | David Austin Grey | Eliza Shaddad | Jim Bashford | Nick Jurd | Nick Rundle | Sam Wooster

The line up for the band Hansu-Tori was originally assembled in 2008 by David Austin Grey while studying at the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Mike Stern: All Over The Place

Al Foster | Anthony Jackson | Bob Franceschini | Bob Malach | Chris Potter | Dave Holland | Dave Weckl | Esperanza Spalding | Jim Beard | Keith Carlock

If you thought Big Neighbourhood, Stern's impressive run out from a couple of years ago tapped a diverse range of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Lina Oh

There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus

Alan Jackson | Bruce Turner | Dave Green | Lol Coxhill | Michael Garrick

One of the delights of recovering jazz recordings from the archives is hearing studio chatter among the musicians, busy sound...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: August/2024

Dave Grusin: Piano, Strings and Moonlight

Because Grusin is such a capable pianist and his trio with Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson so polished, their jazz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Dave King: I've been Ringing You

This isn't what you might expect from the drummer of The Bad Plus, but anyone familiar with pianist Bill Carrothers'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Kenny Wheeler: The Complete Black Saint & Soul Note Recordings — Welcome

Aldo Romano | Bill Elgart | Billy Elgart | Claudio Fasoli | Daniel Humair | Dave Holland | Fasoli | Furio Di Castri | Jean-François Jenny Clark | John Taylor

Five CDs in a box – LPs in miniature, in fact. No notes added or booklet over-view provided. The initial...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk

Jon Irabagon | Kevin Shea | Moppa Elliott | Ron Stabinsky

Last year's MOPDTK album release Blue, a curious note-fornote transcription of Miles' Kind of Blue, had critics and punters furiously...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015