David Murray Cuban Ensemble: Plays Nat King Cole En Espanol

Cuban Ensemble | Daniel Melingo | Murray | Sinfonietta of Strings

David Murray is the archetypal powerhouse saxophonist, the exponent of fire music. This is not the whole truth though. He...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2011

Benny Goodman: Complete Legendary Carnegie Hall Concert

One of the greatest of all concerts, really nicely presented in quite decent sound, and for anyone who doesn’t have...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Jason Palmer Cédric Hanriot: City of Poets

Cédric Hanriot | Clarence Penn | Donny McCaslin | Jason Palmer | Michael Janisch

City of Poets is a French-American exchange project inspired by themes from the American sci-fi author Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Henrik Jensen's Followed By Thirteen: Affinity

Esben Tjalve | Henrik Jensen | Pete Ibbetson | Rory Simmons

Affinity is the third album from Denmark-born London-based bassist Henrik Jensen and his quartet, Followed By Thirteen. It’s a pleasing...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2020

Howard Riley: Listen To Hear

The veteran English pianist's playful charm and deceptively naïve craft are in evidence on this solo piano recording that's another...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Lewis Wright: Duets

Kit Downes | Lewis Wright

As a member of the razor sharp neo-modernist quartet Empirical since 2008, the young vibraphonist Lewis Wright revealed his conceptual,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Santa Diver

A Hungarian ensemble of violin, bass and drums mix up improv, jazz rock and native/eastern folk elements for a live...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

The Jazz Messengers: The Complete Jazz Messengers At The Café Bohemia

Art Blakey | Doug Watkins | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | Kenny Dorham

Confession time: this was the very first Blue Note album that I ever acquired. And I still have it –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013

Archie Semple: Night People/Easy Living

Britain's answer to Pee Wee Rusell in two small group settings, of which the famous Night People (with his Alex...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update

Alexander Rindberger | Aneel Soomary | Asja Valcic | Bernie Mallinger | Bjarne Roupé | Chris Kronreif | Christoph Walder | Clemens Salesny | Cynthia Liao | David Helbock

Here's an unexpected act of revisiting – not least because of the financial and logistical demands in gathering such large...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015