Dave Brubeck: Brandenburg Gate Revisited

Not in the same league as Bossa Nova USA, this features the quartet plus an orchestra playing arrangements by Howard...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Mike Jones Trio: Plays Well with Others

A mainstream piano trio led by a veteran Art Tatum-inspired pianist with drummer Jeff Hamilton and bassist Mike Gurrola providing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else

Art Blakey | Cannonball Adderley | Hank Jones | Miles Davis | Sam Jones

Another vinyl reissue of another classic. The trouble with Somethin’ Else, if indeed it's possible to find fault with a...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2020

Sean Jones: Live from Jazz at the Bistro

The suave, free bop-rooted trumpeter's 12-year-old band's (including the pianist Orrin Evans) first ‘live’ album, and his eighth for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones: Joint Control

Spellbinding acoustic folk-jazz and blues from the guitar masters, recorded just before Renbourn died in 2015....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

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

Clark Terry – Bob Brookmeyer Quintet: The Complete Studio Recordings

Bill Crow | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Cranshaw | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Hank Jones | Roger Kellaway

A match made in heaven? More likely a recording studio where for a time both Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015

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

Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out

Dave Whitford | Richard Fairhurst | Tim Giles

Richard Fairhurst has an impressive pedigree. Five years after beginning to learn the piano at the age of 15, he...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: July/2024

Frank Wess and Thad Jones: Opus De Blues

Swinging, but inventively contemporary, mainstream from the great saxophonist and Thad (plus brother Hank) on fine form with an all-star...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013