Sidney Bechet: In Switzerland

‘Moustache’ Galépidès | Albert Nicholas | Alf Masselier | André Réwéliotty | Bernard Zacharias | Charles Lewis | Christian Azzi | Christian Viénot | Claude Aubert | Claude Jones

For many years after his death Sidney Bechet continued to be regarded as a demi-god in the French-speaking world. This...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2015

Bill Evans: Master Pianist

Bringing together the two albums Evans made after Scott LaFaro’s death, Moon Beams and How My Heart Sings!, this issue...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues

One of Lady Day's finest sessions with Charlie Shavers and Tony Scott (who once told me he'd co-written the title-track...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Mike Moreno: 3 For 3

This engaging US guitarist favours crunchy chords and an earthy sonic, and here performs jazz classics and more unfamiliar tracks...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents

Alan Jackson | Alan Skidmore | Erich Kleinschuster | Fritz Pauer | Harry Miller | John Surman | Kenny Wheeler | Malcolm Griffiths | Mike Osborne | Ronnie Scott

First, some important discographical information that is not mentioned in either the album liner or the publicity notes. In 1969,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2025

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

Ivo Neame: Glimpses Of Truth

Gareth Lockrane | George Crowley | Gilad Hekselman | Ingrid Jensen | Ivo Neame | James Maddren | Jason Yarde | Jim Hart | Jon Scott | Nathaniel Facey

During the 2015 EFG London Jazz Festival, supertrio Phronesis teamed up with the formidable Frankfurt Radio Big Band to play...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2022

Ornette Coleman: The Atlantic Years

Billy Higgins | Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | Jimmy Garrison | Ornette Coleman | Scott LaFaro

Although Beauty Is a Rare Thing, a ‘complete’ Coleman Atlantic 6CD package, came out in 1993 to considerable acclaim (it...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

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

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