Christian Muthspiel’s Yodel Group: Huljo

Bobby Previte | Christian Muthspiel | Franck Tortiller | Gerald Preinfalk | Jerome Harris | Matthieu Michel

Get that image of a traditional lederhosen-clad Alpine country dweller with a mountain scene stretched out behind him out of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Kurzsam and Fulger

Christian Wallumrød | Eivind Lenning | Espen Reinertsen | Per Oddvar Johansen | Tove Törngren

Christian Wallumrød is a real talent on the Norwegian jazz scene, as nine albums on the ECM label attest. Indeed,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Gil Scott-Heron: Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

Charlie Saunders | David Barnes | Eddie Knowles | Gil Scott-Heron

Amid Charles Stewart's lengthy sleeve notes it is easy to miss this declaration by the artist himself: “I am a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton: 'Round Midnight

Chuck Riggs | Harry Allen | Joel Forbes | Rossano Sportiello | Scott Hamilton

Hearing these two together, like master and pupil, at Norwich recently was a joy. And so it is here. Neither...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012

Dave Scott: Brooklyn Aura

The leftfield bassist John Hebert's throbbing lines are at the core of trumpeter-composer Dave Scott's enthralling quintet that also includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Ronnie Scott Quartet: BBC Jazz Club 1964-1966

Bill Eyden | Freddy Logan | Jackie Dougan | Malcolm Cecil | Mark Murphy | Rick Laird | Ronnie Scott | Ronnie Stephenson | Stan Tracey

I'm glad I got to know Scott's music during his Tracey period, having heard the earliest edition here both in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2021

Scott Tixier: Cosmic Adventure

It's become unusual to hear improvising jazz fiddle, so bravo to Scott Tixier who's from the Jean Luc Ponty school...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Scott McLemore: The Multiverse

The third album from drummer Scott McLemore is awash with guitar atmospherics: a duo pairing from Iceland (Hilmar Jensson) and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Tony Scott & The Indonesian All Stars: Djanger Bali

Benny Mustafa | Bubi Chen | Jack Lesmana | Marjono | Tony Scott | Yopi Chen

American clarinettist Tony Scott, an underrated trailblazer in jazz history, spent most of the first half of the 1960s in...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2024

Shirley Scott: Queen Talk: Live at The Left Bank

Bobby Durham | Ernie Andrews | George Coleman | Shirley Scott

The archives of the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore have been the source of several recent albums of live...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2023