Chet Baker: Sings: It Could Happen To You

Chet’s 1958 vocal album with Kenny Drew makes one yearn for more trumpet and less singing, and fortunately that happens...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Andrea Venetiani Trio: Oltreoceano

The Italian, US resident double bassist/composer's trio debut features his mentor Kenny Werner, and alternates between Monk-esque bop and something...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Chris Corcoran Trio: The Getaway

A London-based blues guitarist who also leans towards R&B-jazz, in a trio set that reveals a range of influences including...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Kathrine Windfield Big Band: Aircraft

Danish pianist-composer Kathrine Windfield fronts a high-spirited contemporary swinging Euro jazz ensemble with Cannonball Adderley, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Live Snakes

From concerts recorded in 2011 and 2013, this Boston-based collective run by the saxophonist Ken Field (with guests Josh Roseman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Woody Shaw: Tokyo 1981

Billy Brooks | Dizzy Reece | Jimmy Woode | Johnny Griffi | Kenny Drew | Mulgrew Miller | Nathan Davis | Slide Hampton | Stafford James | Steve Turre

The Shaw quintet that plays six of the seven tracks on this CD is his last regular working group, and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2018

Zoot Sims: New Beat Bossa Nova 1 and 2

Sims' light tenor dances over a gently swinging kitchen department, with additional guitar magic from Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Various Artists: Ban The Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches

Acker Bilk | Chris Barber’s | Ewan MacColl | Geroge Melly | Humphrey Lyttelton | Ken Colyer’s | Kenny Ball | Omega Jazz Band

From childhood days in the early 1950s post-war shadow of Brixton bomb sites and ration book austerity, and later at...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2022

Francy Boland: Playing with the Trio

Originally scattered between the big band fare on Going Classic (Vogue) this presents Boland’s excellent trio – Kenny Clarke and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Emmanuel Bex/Gérard Marais/Aldo Romano: Poisson Nageur

A 1992 organ trio that paid homage – but never copied – the classic Eddy Louiss, René Thomas, Kenny Clarke...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012