Gerald Clark: Nakba – A Jazz Suite for Palestine

Byron Wallen | Dave Hamblett | Duncan Haynes | Johnny Lippiett | Sam Lasserson

Gerald Clark, a London-based composer-arranger, has played a patient game with this release; he started writing the music for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Aziza

Chris Potter | Dave Holland | Eric Harland | Lionel Loueke

The double bass jazz maestro Dave Holland turned 70 in October but shows no signs of slowing down. In fact,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2016

Various Artists: Jazz from London 1957

Bert Courtley | Bill Eyden | Dill Jones | Hank Shaw | Jimmy Skidmore | Ken Wray | Lennie Bush | Tubby Hayes

A real rarity, this one, a collectors' item that goes far enough back into British modern-jazz history to defeat even...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013

The Bad Plus and Joshua Redman: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Dave King | Ethan Iverson | Joshua Redman | Reid Anderson

If we were to look at the career trajectories of both Redman and Bad Plus, we would see in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Geoff Simkins Trio: In A Quiet Way

Dave Green | Geoff Simkins | Nikki Iles

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a review of mine devoted to a London appearance by this Simkins trio...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2017

Carmen McRae: Take Five/Live at Sugar Hill

Two live sets, the fi rst with Dave Brubeck's trio in 1961 – Dave and Joe Morello shadowing every nuance...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Charlie Watts/Danish Radio Big Band: Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band

Charlie Watts | Dave Green | Gerard Presencer

Herein lies a tale. When Charlie Watts was talking to Gerard Presencer shortly after the trumpeter landed a job with...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2017

Emmet Cohen: Uptown in Orbit

Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Patrick Bartley | Russell Hall | Sean Jones

If you don’t know the original Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith ‘Fingerbuster’, cut for Commodore in 1939, you might think that...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023

Art Farmer: Portrait of Art Farmer

Addison Farmer | Art Farmer | Hank Jones | Roy Haynes

Although he’d honed his bop chops with the likes of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon, served time in the R&B...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024

Roy Haynes: Roy Haynes Modern Group

Barney Wilen | Henri Renaud | Jay Cameron | Jimmy Gourley | Jimmy Jones | Joe Benjamin | Roy Haynes

The process of reissuing material from the French labels Vogue and Swing through Sony began with the monumental 20CD set...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017