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

Stan Getz: Moments In Time

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: October/2016

Stan Sulzmann/Nikki Iles: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles showed just how much lyrical imagination, restrained virtuosity and empathy they possess as a sax/...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2020

Alison Rayner Quintet: SEMA4

Alison Rayner | Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Steve Lodder

Alison Rayner’s quintet has deep roots: she and Deirdre Cartwright have played together since they were both in legendary feminist...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2025

Sidney Bechet: Essential Original Albums

Three CDs for under £10 looks a bargain, but the first is an amalgam of LP anthologies, and the latter...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Fletcher Henderson: Harlem Madness

Overlapping the (still available) 1989 Bluebird anthology Hocus Pocus, this offers an overview of Henderson from 1925-37, but some choices...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Yotam Silberstein: The Village

It's mostly the New York-based Israeli guitarist-composer's infectious latin influences that go into this recording, which features a high-quality band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Mark Murphy: Four Classic Albums

Art Davis | Barry Galbraith | Bernie Glow | Bill Evans | Bill Holman | Blue Mitchell | Bobby Gibbons | Clark Terry | Conte Candoli | Ernie Royal Joe Wilder

Avid’s double-CD concentrates, first, on Murphy’s earliest work, with Decca’s Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go albums from 1956...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022

Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch Double Trio: Fun House

The French pianist-composer Benoît Delbecq is probably best known over here for his exciting, cutting-edge projects (Ambitronix, The Recyclers) with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013