Gilad Hekselman: Ask For Chaos

Aaron Parks | Gilad Hekselman | Jonathan Pinson | Kush Abadey | Rick Rosato

Hekselman won the ‘Rising Star’ category in last year's annual DownBeat Critics Poll. With his sixth release, we get to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Tower Of Power: Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now

Bill Lamb | Bruce Conte | Carol Rogers | Chester Thompson | Edward McGee | Emilio Castillo | Francis Rocco Prestia | Greg Adams | Ivory Stone | Lenny Pickett

The Tower's debut on Columbia found them parking the funkier edge of the early 1970s releases for an altogether more...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2017

Eugene Chadbourne: The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session

This 1977 recording, originally on cassette, documents Chadbourne's idiosyncratic guitar playing before he began his long association with Leo Records,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Nat King Cole and Quincy Jones: Live in Zurich 1960

Long bootlegged, this is the first ‘official’ release of Cole's broadcast with the Jones orchestra in 1960, and with great...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Anders and Christian Jormin: Provenance

A Swedish duo of long-time Bobo Stenson bass man Anders and his pianist/percussionist brother Christian perform patient, quiet yet tenderly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Chet Baker: Chet is Back

Originally on RCA, this 1962 set was recorded in Rome shortly after Chet left jail, and long regarded as among...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Various Artists: Jazz At The Philharmonic Complete Live In Stockholm 1960

Art Davis | Benny Carter | Candido Camero | Cannonball Adderley | Chuck Lampkin | Coleman Hawkins | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Byas | Herb Ellis | JJ Johnson

It has never been a perfect world, but if it were, then commemorative stamps would be issued, coins struck and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith: The World of the Children

Shamek Farrah

Another month, and yet another splendid Pure Pleasure reissue from Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell's pioneering Strata-East label archive. One...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2021

Getz/Gilberto: ‘76

Stan Getz

There seems no end to the posthumous treasures emerging from San Francisco's long-deceased Keystone Korner. This booking was to celebrate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2016

Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Screen Off

Ken Vandermark | Paal Nilssen-Love

This 10th album from the longstanding, high-energy, improvising sax/drums duo is a retrospective compilation of extracts from live shows recorded...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019