Jan Lundgren: Potsdamer Platz

Dan Berglund | Jan Lundgren | Jukka Perko | Morten Lund

All the players on this disc are Scandinavian – saxophonist Jukka Perko hails from Finland, drummer Morten Lund is Danish,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Charlie Parker: Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes

Al Haig | Benny Harris | Buddy Rich | Carlos Vidal | Charlie Parker | Curley Russell | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Lamond | Hank Jones | Jimmy Carroll

Charlie Parker didn't invent the idea of releasing the alternate takes that occur, for musical or technical reasons, during studio...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2016

Charles Mingus: Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection

Bobby Jones | Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Clarence Shaw | Dannie Richmond | Don Ellis | George Adams | Gunther Schuller | Horace Parlan

Compared to the stifling effect of Sony's blanket coverage of Dave Brubeck, their holdings of Mingus are quite modest. Now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas IV

Brandon Seabrook | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks | Kenny Wollesen | Tony Malaby

The instrument at the heart of this recording by the prolific New Yorkbased Norwegian bassist Eivind Opsvik is the harpsichord....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Payan

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach

Never, perhaps, has the case for improvisation as spontaneous composition been made as convincingly as by Germany's Alexander Von Schlippenbach,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2014

Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox

Allan Harris | Jake Goldbas | Leon Boykins | Pascal Le Boeuf | Samuel Torres | Yotam Silberstein

A three-time winner of the New York Nightlife Award for ‘Outstanding Jazz Vocalist’, and named by Tony Bennett as ‘my...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Wynton Kelly Trio: Complete Vee Jay Studio Recordings

Jimmy Cobb | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Sam Jones | Wynton Kelly

References are often made to the characteristics of locations such as LA, Texas, Chicago or New Orleans when discussing the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013

Calviere-Hays-Le Fleming-Franchescini: Whole Lotta Love

Last year's Jazz Sabbath project, which saw keyboardist Adam Wakeman reinterpret Black Sabbath's monumental metal for jazz trio, was a...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Bill MacCormick | Brian Eno | Dave MacRae | Dave Macrae | Dave Sinclair | Mutter Korus | Phil Miller | Robert Wyatt

Matching Mole are usually seen as a transitionary stage in the career of Robert Wyatt. The group formed in 1971,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2012

Wild Card: Organic Riot

Andrew Noble | B'loon | Clement Regert | Graeme Flowers | Jerome Harper | Joao Caetano | Lili Lonvheva | Natalie Williams | Roberto Manzin | Sophie Alloway

Wild Card and their amenable, danceable, brassy funk are driven largely by Regert's spicy guitar and held safe in Alloway's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015