Various Artists: Soho Scene ’66, ’67: Jazz Goes Mod

Dudley Moore | Harry Humphrey Lyttelton | Jimmy McGriff | Les McCann | Lionel Hampton | Milt Jackson | Ronnie Ross | Ronnie Scott | Stan Tracey | Tubby Hayes

For this latest 4CD sound- picture Rhythm and Blues Records has again found some gems from unlikely sources, and included...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2020

David Chevalier/Valentin Ceccaldi: Zèbres

A Paris-based duo, the young cellist Ceccaldi, who has partnered the idiosyncratic vocalist Leila Martial, meets avant-garde guitarist David Chevalier....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018

Mo' Blow: Gimme the Boots

With Nils Landgren on the studio desk, this fresh-faced German quartet's debut is a lightweight brand of the producer's sort...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Ron McClure: Ready or Not

Remembered fondly for his 1966-9 stint with the Charles Lloyd group, this veteran bassist-composer captures its youth alongside some of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Zoot Sims: Leader & Sideman: Four Classic Albums

Al Cohn | Bob Brookmeyer | Charlie Persip | Danny Richmond | Dave McKenna | Eddie Jones | Freddie Green | Hank Jones | Harry Edison | Jon Eardley

A treasure trove for connoisseurs of mainstream-modern groove, this CD-double uncovers four albums – Stretchin' Out, Starring Zoot Sims, Down...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2012

Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is A Rare Thing

Billy Higgins | Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | Jim Hall | Jimmy Garrison | Ornette Coleman | Scott Lafaro

All of Ornette's classic Atlantic material has now been made available many times over but this reissued and repackaged collection...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2015

Vels Trio: Celestial Greens

Cameron Dawson | Dougal Taylor | Jack Stephenson Oliver

This long-awaited debut album sees the Brighton-to-London young guns finally follow up on their 2017 Yellow Ochre EP. The intervening...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Moss Freed/Union Division: Micromotives

Brice Catherin | Charlotte Keeffe | Chris Williams | Elliot Galvin | George Crowley | James Maddren | Laura Jurd | Moss Freed | Otto Willberg | Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

Freed by name, freed by nature (look, somebody had to say it!), the guitarist here releases on one album two...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Frank Dupree and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie: George Antheil A Jazz Symphony

Frank Dupree | Karl-Heinz Steffens | the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinlad-Pfalz Orchestra

The common thread running through cubism, primitivism, dadaism, surrealism and all the other modernist ‘isms’ at the turn of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2017

Ben Webster Quartet: Live In Hilversum 1970

Ben Webster | Cees Slinger | John Engels | Rob Langereis

I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014