Archipelago: Weightless

Christian Alderson | Faye MacCalman | John Pope

As Archipelago begin recording their second album, this 2017 debut is only just surfacing nationally. The Newcastle trio list Don...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Buddy De Franco: Bravura – Complete 1959 Septette

A fine collection of 3 LPs on one CD, of which the pick is De Franco’s band with Scott La...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2011

Brzzvll & Anthony Joseph: Engines

For those who remember this London-based Trinidadian, Gil Scott Heron inspired street poet Anthony Joseph's entertaining Spasm Band, here's a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes

Adam Chatterton | Alex Hitchcock | James Copus | James Davison | Jamie Pimenta | Kieran McLeod | Liam Dunachie | Matthew Herd | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Rob Luft

This 17-piece big-band collective is inevitably unwieldy, and quixotically impractical. But in letting its members write large-scale compositions, otherwise unlikely...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2019

Tierney Sutton: After Blue

Hubert Laws | Larry Goldings | Peter Erskine | Tierney Sutton | Turtle Island Quartet

Grammy nominated in the ‘Best Jazz Vocal Album’ category, After Blue presents one of the finest homages to Joni Mitchell's...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2014

Jeffrey Osborne: Worth It All

Bill Sharpe | Jeffrey Osborne | Kevin Chokan | Khari Parker | Ming Freeman

The veteran musician and singersongwriter Jeffrey Osborne has been a little quieter in the studio since the turn of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2018

Cootie Williams: Concerto For Cootie – Selected Recordings 1928-1962

Barney Bigard | Benny Goodman | Charlie Shavers | Coleman Hawkins | Cootie and Rex | Cootie Williams | Dinah Washington | Duke Ellington | Eddie Mack | Jimmy Johnson

Acrobat’s sumptuous 4-CD collection devoted to trumpeter and star Ellingtonian, Cootie Williams (1911-1985), states: “Features performances with Duke Ellington, Benny...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024

Andrew Rathbun: Shadow Forms II

Born in Toronto but now a New York resident, saxophonist Rathbun is a conceptualist who alongside bassist Scott Lee and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Howard McCrary: Moments Like This

With a smooth voice, and a sophisticated blues piano style, Ohio-born Howard McCrary was a star on the 1990s Birmingham...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Astrild Astrild

These Brittany-based doom and gloom merchants are primarily inspired by David Lynch composer Angelo Badalamenti, but his otherworldly soundscape also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017