Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album

Chet Baker | Dave Frishberg | Jack Marshall | Jack Sheldon | Joe Mondragon | Nick Ceroli

Several biographical accounts date Chet Baker’s return to playing, after the 1966 assault that cost him his front teeth, to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2024

Camille Howard: The Empress of Boogie Woogie 1946-1956

Camille Howard | Camille Howard Trio | James Clifford Jazz Orchestra | Roy Milton & His Solid Senders

Texas-born Camille Howard (1914-1993), real name Deasy Browning, like many of her fellow African- Americans made for Los Angeles where...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025

Trichotomy: Album Interview: Fact Finding Mission

James Muller | John Parker | Linsey Pollak | Patrick Marchisella | Sean Foran | Tunji Beier

With a pair of albums – Variations and 2010's The Gentle War, the latter especially exhilarating and serene in equal...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Album Interview: Binker and Moses: Alive In The East?

Binker Golding | Byron Walle | Evan Parker | Moses Boyd | Tori Handsley | Yussef Dayes

The second disc of last year's Journey To The Mountain Of Forever album by jazz-rooted, but generically free-thinking, young MOBO...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2018

Album Interview: Marshall Allen/Danny Ray Thompson/Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balázs Pándi: Ceremonial Healing

Balázs Pándi | Danny Ray Thompson | Jamie Saft | Marshall Allen | Roswell Rudd | Trevor Dunn

To call Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson key figures in the Sun Ra Arkestra would be something of an...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2019

Various Artists: We Like Ike: 100th Birthday Tribute To Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs

Andy Brotherton | Andy Christie | Andy Hulme | Andy Kinsman | Andy Tween | Brett Hirst | Carl Orr | Charles Alexander | Dave Smith | Esmond Selwyn

Here’s a 17-track mixed-bag tribute to mark the centenary of the influential jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs who was born in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2020

Victor Feldman: Four Classic Albums

A boy-wonder on drums who went on to become an excellent pianist, vibraphonist and front-rank composer of classic modern-jazz themes,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020

Baldych & Herman: The New Tradition

Adam Baldych | Yaron Herman

If the Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock duo, reviewed elsewhere in this magazine (page 43), appear as exemplary exponents of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014

The Oscar Peterson Trio + The Singers Unlimited: In Tune

Bonnie Herman | Don Shelton | Gene Puerling | Jiri Mraz | Len Dresslar | Louis Hayes | Oscar Peterson

Despite the excellence of Oscar Peterson’s enormous output on Norman Granz’s Verve label, his playing seemed to reach full maturity...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018

Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

Alexander Myrat | Eleni Karaindrou | Jan Garbarek | the Camerata Orchestra | Vangelis Christopoulos

This haunting, evocative album largely derives from music written for motion pictures by the late filmaker Theo Angelopoulos and theatre...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013