Jimmy Giuffre/Jim Hall Trio: Complete Studio Recordings

For once someone got the billing spot-on. Jim Hall wasn't employed just to strum the appropriate chords while Giuffre flitted...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Indo Jazz Fusions with Larry Adler

Clem Alford | Jeff Clyne | Jim Moyse | John Marshall | John Mayer | Keshav Sathe | Larry Adler | Stan Sulzmann

Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022

Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Arto Tunöboyaciyan | Bobby Thomas | Gergö Borlai | Hadrien Feraud | Jimmy Haslip | Katisse Buckingham | Scott Kinsey

Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Al Hendrickson | Ann Graham | Art Lund | Benny Goodman | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Benny Goodman Quartet | Benny Goodman Trio | Betty Vann | Billie Holiday | Buddy Greco

Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024

John Taylor Sextet: Eye To Eye: Live 1971

Chris Laurence | Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann | Tony Levin

Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022

Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy Sessions

Bud Powell | Charlie Parker | Clyde Hart | Dizzy Gillespie | Duke Jordan | John Lewis | Max Roach | Miles Davis | Slam Stewart | Tommy Potter

Charlie Parker’s career on recordings are dominated by his affiliation with the Savoy, Dial and Clef labels with an ever...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016

Sun Ra: At The Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-77

Ahmed Abdullah | Atakatune | Cheryl Banks-Smith | Dale Williams | Danny Davis | Danny Thompson | Eddie Thomas | Eloe Omoe | Emmett McDonald | James Jacson

Two very different Record Store Day releases from the Saturnic Mr Ra, both featuring previously unheard music and both revealing...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2024

Don Rendell Sextet: The Odysseus Suite

Don Rendell | Jack Thorncroft | Michael Garrick | Peter Shade | Stan Robinson | Trevor Tomkins

Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022

Album Interview: Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead

Ellen Brekken | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Ivar Loe Bjornstad

That Mollestad would love to have played on Miles' Live/Evil recordings is the giveaway. This is a guitarist whose writing...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance | Michael League

Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023