Sophie Agnel/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Three On A Match

John Edwards | Sophie Agnel | Steve Noble

These new releases from Cafe OTO’s in-house label showcase two pianists who have proven firm favourites as performers at the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2024

Fred Hersch & The WDR Big Band: Begin Again

Fred Hersch | Vince Mendoza | WDR Big Band

Recorded before the massive changes to the jazz programming at WDR that began in April this year with a cull...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Paul Desmond Canadian Quartet: Audrey Live In Toronto 1975

First outing on CD for this long unavailable Canadian CD of one of Desmond's most eloquent non-Brubeck sessions....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Van Morrison: Duets

Kit Downes | Lewis Wright

Featuring 16 reworked songs from Van Morrison's capacious back catalogue, Duets sees the legendary singer-songwriter team up with 16 handpicked...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2018

Timo Lassy Big Brass: Live at The Savoy Theatre Helsinki

Antti Lotjonen | Georgios Kontrafouris | Jukka Eskola | Teppo Makynen | Timo Lassy

Timo Lassy emerged as a saxophonist to watch in The Five Corners Quintet back in 2005, recorded by Antti Eerikainen...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Curtis Stigers: Gentleman

Austin Beede | Curtis Stigers | David Piltch | Doug Yowell | Jody Ferber | John “Scrapper” Sneider | Larry Goldings

This follow-up to his fabulous 2017 live album with the Danish Radio Big Band, One More for the Road, finds...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt: Boss Tenors in Orbit!/Soul Summit

Not long after Verve reissued the first of these albums, this two-LPs-on-one-CD package comes along, which is excellently mastered and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Phil Haynes: No Fast Food

A McDonalds-free 2-CD live session served up by a versatile percussionist's trio with big guns for company, in Dave Liebman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Chet Baker: In Paris Complete Original Recordings

The three LPs and one EP that Baker recorded in 1955, either side of the death of Dick Twardzik, for...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Lorenz Kellhuber: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival

A young prizewinning German pianist with technique to spare taking the classic Jarrett ‘live’ route (with similar references to classical...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018