J Frisco: Cut Throat

Jemma Freese | Lara Jones | Megan Roe

Cut Throat invites an expansive view of music; it follows the line of jazz as a raw roar of expression,...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: March/2021

Various Artists: Gilles Peterson Presents: MV4

Dylan Jones | Fatima | Hak Baker | Ishmael Ensemble | James Mollison | Joe Armon-Jones | Marijus Aleksa | Mutale Chashi | Niles ‘Asheber’ Hailstones | Nubya Garcia

A Gilles Peterson radio session at the BBC's Maida Vale studio went past its broadcast remit in 2018, as a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2020

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

Richie Beirach: Leaving

Richie Beirach

Now aged 75, pianist Richie Beirach made an album with the same title in 1976, a duo set with reeds...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2023

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

Zoöphyte: Signs of Life

Andrew Cleyndert | Graeme Flowers | Kitty Whitelaw | Nick Mills | Peter Jones | Rob Luft | Ross Stanley | Sophie Alloway | Vasilis Xenopoulos | Will Fry

Although released as a band recording, this is very much a vehicle for Peter Jones' talents: as well as his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2020

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

Dave Brubeck: Countdown ’ Time In Outer Space

The classic Desmond/Wright/Morello 1961 version of the quartet continues its time signature experiments with aplomb across 11 original tracks and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014