Anita O'Day: Four Classic Albums Plus (Second Set)

Together with Avid's first O'Day album, this covers her best mid-period work, with four LPs well transferred, plus her screen...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Art Pepper Quartet: Modern Art – The Russ Freeman Sessions

Art Pepper | Ben Tucker | Bob Whitlock | Bobby White | Chuck Flores | Gary Frommer | Leroy Vinnegar | Russ Freeman | Shelly Manne

For once, let's hear it for piano man Russ Freeman! Though a prominent sideman on countless West Coast recordings, Freeman...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2018

Tania Maria: Tempo

From its very opening bars, a luxuriantly voiced chordal introduction to ‘Estate’, this meeting between pianist-vocalist Tania Maria and bassist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2015

Livio Minafra: Surprise!!!

Italian pianist puts an energetic rush of Balkan rhythms and folk music into this quartet recording that doesn't veer too...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Bill Carrothers: Family Life

Bill Carrothers

While putting the underrated tag on the idiosyncratic pianist-composer Bill Carrothers (who's actually in his mid-forties) isn't just lazy journalistic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Nick Prol and the Proletarians: Look Attic

Jeremy Corbyn disciples might get excited about the name but the guitarist/singer/composer Nick Prol's songs are more indebted to the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio & Verneri Pohjola: Ancestry

Porgrimus Jónsson | Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Verneri Pohjola

Mr and Mrs McLemore (Sunna Gunnlaugs and Scott McLemore) are two important figures on the Icelandic jazz scene, with the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

The Byron Allen Trio

Byron Allen | Maceo Gilchrist | Teddy Robinson

‘Whatever happened to Byron Allen?’ asks keyboard player Don Pullen, lamenting the passing of the avant-garde scene, in Gary Giddins’...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: August/2013

Magnus Östrm: Parachute

Andreas Hourdakis | Daniel Karlsson | Magnus Öström | Mathias Eick | Thomas Gabrielson

Since the tragic diving accident that claimed Esbjörn Svensson’s life on 14 June 2008, both Öström and bassist Dan Berglund,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016

Sun Ra And His Arkestra: At Inter-Media Arts April 1991

Ahmed Abdullah | Charles Davis | Chris Capers | Clifford Barbaro | Earl ‘Buster’ Smith | Elson ‘Dos Santos’ Nascimento | Fred Adams | James Jacson | John Gilmore | Jothan Callins

Three more additions to Sun Ra's already prolific and mysterious discography, all of which showcase certain aspects of his inspirational...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2017