Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Astrild Astrild

These Brittany-based doom and gloom merchants are primarily inspired by David Lynch composer Angelo Badalamenti, but his otherworldly soundscape also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Marty Paich: The Broadway Bit

Previously out from Warner and Rhino, this 12-piece band is mainly sought after by Scott LaFaro fans, as he plays...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Andrew Rathbun: Shadow Forms II

Born in Toronto but now a New York resident, saxophonist Rathbun is a conceptualist who alongside bassist Scott Lee and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Orcastratum

Pianist Glenn Scott has an enviable indie/R&B-pop sideman CV, but here in a quartet that includes Neville Malcolm and drummer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018

Frankie Newton: The Frankie Newton Collection 1929-46

Sometimes more celebrated for his left-wing politics than his fine playing, this 3CD shows why Newton was so highly regarded...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Howard McCrary: Moments Like This

With a smooth voice, and a sophisticated blues piano style, Ohio-born Howard McCrary was a star on the 1990s Birmingham...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

The Pete Hurt Jazz Orchestra: A New Start

Dave Powell | Henry Lowther | Jim Rattigan | Jon Scott | Josephine Davies | Kate Williams | Martin Hathaway | Mick Foster | Mick Hutton | Nick Costley-White

Hurt, long a notable presence on the metropolitan scene released a small big band album on Spotlite way back in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

Ergo: If Not Inertia

Brett Sroka | Mary Halvorson | Sam Harris | Sebastian Kruger | Shawn Baltazor

Trombonist Brett Sroka may be an Ellington freak but he is also a film composer and a member of psych...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2012

The Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Last Night at the Old Place

Alan Jackson | Bernie Living | Dave Holdsworth | George Khan | Harry Miller | John Surman | Malcolm Griffiths | Mike Osborne | Mike Westbrook | Paul Rutherford

It may seem amazing that such an important document of British jazz history, the last night at Ronnie Scott’s ‘Old...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2018

Stanley Turrentine: Look Out

Al Harewood | George Duvivier | George Tucker | Herbie Lewis | Horace Parlan | Les McCann | Max Roach | Otis Finch | Roy Brooks | Shirley Scott

Another of Jazz Images’ curious re-packings in which the headlining album is accompanied by three ‘bonus’ sessions which somehow don’t...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2020