Buck Clayton: Complete Legendary Jam Sessions – Master Takes

Al Waslohn | Bennie Green | Benny Powell | Billy Butterfield | Billy Kyle | Bobby Donaldson | Buck Clayton | Buddy Tate | Charlie Fowlkes | Coleman Hawkins

Three CDs in a cardboard slip-case, just another public domain release by an Andorra-based label and largely lifted from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011

Ivo Perelman: Villa Lobos Suite

Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Tanya Kalmanovitch | Whit Dickey

True to form the Brazilian tenor saxophonist goes far and wide with his studio albums, releasing a customary bunch of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Sarah L King: Fire Horse

Chris Trave | Claire Martin | Ian Shaw | Ian Thomas | James McMillan | Jeremy Brown | Jim Watson | Laurence Cottle | Sarah L King

Expertly produced by Claire Martin and beautifully recorded by Chris Traves at Soup To Nuts Studios, London, and in part...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2024

Pat Thomas: The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir

Pat Thomas

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

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

Mike Holober: Balancing Act

The New York pianist-composer Mike Holober keeps his large ensemble aesthetics intact (a long-running ex guest director of HR Frankfurt...

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

Jerry Granelli Trio: Let Go

Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller

It's been a long time coming but the veteran beat scene drummer finally takes the plunge with a debut experimenting...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Dave Glasser: Hypocrisy Democracy

Andy Milne | Ben Allison | Dave Glasser | Matt Wilson

This Lee Konitz-influenced saxophonist is a long-time Basie orchestra member, but his remit is wide, covering free-bop, blues-groove and cool...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

The Bob Sands Quartet: Out and About

A long time Madrid-based Manhattan expat on tenor sax takes a stroll through a set of mostly dedicated hard bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

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