Ruby Braff/Coleman Hawkins: Braff!!

Mid-1950s Braff accompanied by Nat Pierce or Dave McKenna – the former's larger band on half the tracks includes Hawkins,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015

Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back

Backed by a band including respected bop saxophonist Dick Oatts and guitarist Dave Stryker, this skilled jazz standards vocalist heads...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Angus Bayley: Scrapbook

Mentored by the classical-influenced Brit pianist Richard Fairhurst, this 27-year-old Yorkshire-born pianist is gently persuasive as a composer of pastoral...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

John Minnock: Herring Cove

An unusual jazz-led venture in which a soul and jazz influenced vocalist, in trio with guest Dave Liebman, sings of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Rempis/Piet/Daisy: Throw Tomatoes

Vandermark 5 saxophonist Dave Rempis heads a Chicagoan free jazz trio romp with Matt Piet and Tim Daisy on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018

Nicole Johänntgen: Moncaup

Awarded the seal of approval by her mentor Dave Liebman, this energetic German saxophonist plays exhilaratingly funky post-Coltrane soprano with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Péter Rozsnyói Trio: Pain of an Angel

The Budapest Music Center which has a pivotal role in promoting quality new Hungarian jazz, releases an easy going swingin’...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

George Russell Sextet/Septet: Complete 1960-1962 Decca & Riverside Album Collection

Al Kiger | Albert Heath | Brian Trentham | Chuck Israels | Dave Young | David Baker | David Lahm | Don Ellis | Eric Dolphy | Garnett Brown

Although he would not have agreed, it may be that Russell was at his most influential during this period. Not...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2015

Hanging Hearts: Into a Myth

The Chicago-based Chris Weller is a saxophonist in his city's gutsy tenor mould and his trio collective pumps out a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017