Brian Charette: Power from the Air

Brian Charette | Brian Fishler | Itai Kriss | Karel Ruzicka | Kenny Brooks | Mike DiRubbo

Brian Charette keeps you on your toes: last time he was on Steeplechase he was roogalating with a big band:...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Don Rendell Sextet: The Odysseus Suite

Don Rendell | Jack Thorncroft | Michael Garrick | Peter Shade | Stan Robinson | Trevor Tomkins

Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022

Naná Vasconcelos: Saudades

These two facsimile releases of original ECM vinyl, recorded in 1975 and 1979, announce the launch of Luminessence, ECM’s prestigious...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Andrew Hill: Point of Departure

Andrew Hill | Anthony Williams | Eric Dolphy | Joe Henderson | Kenny Dorham | Richard Davis

Andrew Hill’s reputation in jazz is based on the solid foundations of 12 Blue Note albums he made between 1963...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Dexter Gordon/Slide Hampton: A Day In Copenhagen

Art Taylor | Dexter Gordon | Dizzy Reece | Kenny Drew | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Slide Hampton

How good it is to have this album in circulation again! Never the best-known of records, it’s probably Gordon’s finest...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2022

Clifford Brown/Max Roach All Stars: Best Coast Jazz

Clifford Brown | Curtis Counce | Herb Geller | Joe Maini | Kenny Drew | Max Roach | Walter Benton

Taking Norman Granz’s lead, the folks at EmArcy gathered up a posse of young LA-based musicians for, what some might...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016

Monnette Sudler: In My Own Way

Kenny Kellen | Mohamed Al-Jabry | Monnette Sudler | Newman T Baker | Oliver Collins

Before Hedwig Mollestadt, Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn; before even Emily Remler, there was Philly-born Monnette Sudler, ploughing a rather...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022

Little Feat: Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros years 1971-1990

Bill Payne | Kenny Gradney | Lowell George | Paul Barrere | Richie Hayward | Roy Estrada | Sam Clayton

Time Loves A Hero proclaims the title of Little Feat's sixth album, but time has clearly not loved the band's...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2014

Various Artists: Amarcord Nino Rota

Amina Claudine Myers | Arturo O'Farrill | Bill Frisell | Bobby Eldridge | Branford Marsalis | Charles Rocket | Chris Stein | Claudio Roditi | Courtenay Wynter | D. Sharpe

This landmark album was originally released in 1981 and recorded in tribute to the Italian film composer Nino Rota, focusing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018