Gerry Mulligan: The Concert Jazz Band

Alan Raph | Bill Crow | Bill Takas | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Donovan | Buddy Clark | Conte Candoli | Danny Stiles | Dave Bailey | Dick Meldonian

A good decade and a half after the Swing Era went bust, 1960 hardly seemed an auspicious time in which...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2019

Austin Peralta: Endless Planets – Deluxe Edition

Austin Peralta | Ben Wendel | Hamilton Price | Strangeloop | Zach Harmon | Zane Musa

The story of keyboardist Austin Peralta is one all too familiar to jazz fans: a stellar talent taken too young...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2024

Album Interview: Soft Machine: Hidden Details

John Etheridge | John Marshall | Nick Utteridge | Roy Babbington | Theo Travis

The loss of Jon Hiseman inevitably hangs over Hidden Details, but there could be no more fitting tribute to his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2018

Gregory Porter: All Rise

Chip Crawford | Gregory Porter | Jahmal Nichols | Troy Miller

Following 2017’s heartfelt dedication to his lifelong idol, Nat King Cole & Me, this sixth studio album marks a welcome...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Album Interview: John Escreet: The Unknown

Evan Parker | John Escreet | John Hébert | Tyshawn Sorey

The New York-based Brit expat pianist John Escreet was so inspired by the enterprise that had evolved from his 2014...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2016

Hazel O’Connor: Give You My Sunshine

Those of a certain age will remember the 1980s phenomenon that was Breaking Glass, but O’Connor has gone more bluesy,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

The Skatalites: Walk with Me

Although the originals have now gone, these ska pioneers live on with a first recording for five years, most tracks...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Bach Jazz

Emil Carlsson Rinstad | Magnus Bergström | Ola Winkler

Although one of the earliest Jazz-and-Bach compositions was Welshman Alec Templeton’s ‘Bach Goes To Town,’ an arrangement that was picked...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2024

Album Interview: Colin Towns Mask Orchestra: Drama

Alan Skidmore | Andrew McCormack | Arnd Giese | Barnaby Dickinson | Chris Montague | Colin Towns | George Hogg | Graham Russell | Harry Brown | Henry Lowther

Drama by name but epic in form with over 140 minutes of music, this double CD captures much of Towns’...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015

George Lewis: Jazz at the Ohio Union

George Lewis collectors have long known of this 1954 concert, and it has been out on LP and on Storyville...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013