Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family
The prolific Norwegian drummer-composer Gard Nilssen’s 17-piece orchestra boasts a scary line-up, a distinguished international cast of Scandinavian contemporary jazz...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2023
Reuben Fowler: Between Shadows
The 23-year-old trumpeter Reuben Fowler’s debut album on the Edition label represents part of his prize for winning the Kenny...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013
Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions
The short-lived pianistic genius that was Sonny Clark (1931-63) is perhaps better known for the sessions he made with other...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2023
Clarke-Boland Big Band: Handle With Care
Regrets? I've had a few and high on that list was never catching this iconic aggregation in person. There is...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2015
Charlie Parker: Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes
Charlie Parker didn't invent the idea of releasing the alternate takes that occur, for musical or technical reasons, during studio...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2016
Michael Gibbs/Gary Burton: Festival 69
When these 1969 live recordings were made, the composer and trombonist Michael Gibbs had left his birthplace in what was...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Srdjan Ivanovic Blazin'Quartet: Sleeping Beauty
Andreas Polyzogpoulos | Federico Casagrande | Magic Malik | Mihail Ivanov | Srdjan Ivanovic
This is the fourth album by Paris-based, Bosnian-born drummer Srdjan Ivanovic's pan-European group Blazin' Quartet, and it is not without...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021
Laurie Jacobs Quartet: Midnight Voyage
John Turville | Laurie Jacobs | Oli Hayhurst | Vincent Rusquet
Saxophonist Laurie Jacobs has made a tidy contribution to British jazz life, not least by establishing Peterborough Jazz Club in...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015
Blossom Dearie: Little Jazz Bird
Blossom Dearie | Ed Thigpen | Kenny Burrell | Ray Brown
Blossom Dearie (1924-2009), so the story goes, received her (perfectly apt) name when a neighbour brought over some peach blossoms...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2010
Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling
Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014
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