Webster Wraight Ensemble: No Lucky Days

Adam Linsley | Andrew Lofthouse | Ashley Horton | Brian Wilson | Charles Webster | Chris Cole | Dave O'Higgins | David Roberts | Emilie Chick | Geoff Pearson

A collaboration between an electronic dance producer/drummer Charles Webster and Matthew Herbert big band arranger Peter Wraight brings together a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Schweizer Favre: Live in Zurich

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor

Recorded live for a leading avant garde Swiss-based label, this playfully spirited piano and percussion duo has an infectiously raw...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Enrico Pieranunzi with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard

Anthony Tidd | Jonathan Finlayson | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman | Steve Coleman

In the period prior to his passing towards the end of 2011, drum great Paul Motian contributed to a number...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2018

Mark Murphy: Rah/Hip Parade

Bill Evans | Clark Terry | George Duvivier | Jimmy Cobb | Mark Murphy | Wynton Kelly

This outstanding Mark Murphy twofer pairs Rah, recorded for Riverside in 1961, with his second album for Capitol, Hip Parade,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012

Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Sings

Alvin Stoller | Barney Kessel | Billie Holiday | Charlie Shavers | Flip Phillips | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown

Produced by Norman Granz and featuring a first-class line-up, this all-ballads album – the singer's first recording for Granz's Clef...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2020

Brandon Allen: The Gene Ammons Project

Arnie Somogyi | Brandon Allen | Matt Home | Ross Stanley

Ever the activist, Aussie ex-pat Allen has been touring for a while now with this fine quartet, badged as ‘The...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas – Sound Prints: Other Worlds

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Linda May Han Oh

Other Worlds is the third release by the Sound Prints quintet – the A-list postbop ensemble co-led by Joe Lovano...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2021

Bright Dog Red: Somethin’ Comes Along

Founded by drummer Joe Pignato, five-piece Bright Dog Red's mash-up of Maceo-style funk, old-school rap and jazz-rock riffage is an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Peter Evans/Sam Pluta: Two Live Sets

Not for the fainthearted, the experimental trumpet virtuoso Evans favours frantic abstraction and rollercoaster effects/looping devices in dialogue with Pluta's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Peggy Lee: Four Classic Albums

This is music from Peggy's great period, 1956-61, topped off with Quincy Jones' peerless arrangements for Blues Cross Country, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020