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

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

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

Dave Bailey: One Foot in the Gutter

Brilliant Clark Terry, outstanding Curtis Fuller and Horace Parlan on fine form in drummer Bailey's all-star sextet. So what's not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

The OGJB Quartet: Ode To O

Barry Altschul | Graham Haynes | Joe Fonda | Oliver Lake

There’s no doubting the credentials of these four éminences grises who, between them, have worked with major avant-gardists including Anthony...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2022

Jure Pukl: Doubtless

Gregory Hutchinson | Joe Sanders | Jure Pukl | Melissa Aldana

In his liner note, Jure Pukl's former Berklee teacher Joe Lovano warmly endorses this sophisticated and melodically shapely session, built...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2018

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1955 – 1966

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Benjamin | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Norman Bates | Paul Desmond

This is a valuable set, since original vinyl Brubeck albums have been steadily increasing in value for a while now,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

Back Door: Back Door/8th Street Nights/Another Fine Mess

Bernie Holland | Colin Hodgkinson | Dave MacRae | Dave Macrae | Felix Pappalardi | Peter Thorup | Ron Asprey | Tony Hicks

Like a wintry blast from their Yorkshire moors lair where much of their music coalesced, Back Door arrived in 1972,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015