Tingvall Trio: In Concert

John Taylor | Norma Winstone

Almost without anyone noticing here in the UK, the Tingvall Trio have been climbing up the European rankings. In Germany,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Charlie Bates Big Band: Silhouettes

Alex Astbury | Andrew Clennell | Charlie Bates | Christos Sylianides | Daniel Kemshell | Daniel Spirrett | David Hamilton | David Sear | David Tibbitts | Elliot Drew

Charlie Bates, a recent graduate of Birmingham Conservatoire's jazz course, foregoes his usual piano role to conduct this recording of...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: September/2017

Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49

Bud Powell | Charlie Christian | Charlie Parker | Coleman Hawkins | Dexter Gordon | Dizzy Gillespie | Django Reinhardt | Don Byas | Ella Fitzgerald | Fats Navarro

We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Alan Barnes/David Newton: Inside Out

Alan Barnes | David Newton

As label boss Alan Barnes notes in the inlay, these two have been playing together forever and indeed, have recorded...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2012

Sarah Vaughan & Quincy Jones: Misty

Misty brings together two superb Vaughan albums. The first, Vaughan and Violins, was recorded in Paris in 1958 with an...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017

Ben Wendel: The Seasons

Aaron Parks | Ben Wendel | Eric Harland | Gilad Hekselman | Matt Brewer

Isn’t April supposed to be the cruellest month? That’s how TS Eliot had it, subverting Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and centuries...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Feb/2019

Herbie Hancock: Takin‘ Off

Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Clifford Jarvis | Dexter Gordon | Freddie Hubbard | Herbie Hancock | James Spaulding | Reggie Workman

Jazz debuts don't come much more impressive or memorable than this, Hancock's Takin' Off, cut just after the pianist's 22nd...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2019

Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands

Adrian Sherriff | Alison Limerick | Andres Lafone | Baluji Shrivastav | Cemal Akkiraz | Chris Biscoe | Claude Deppa | Courtney Pine | Fiona Burnett | Gail Ann Dorsey

Made by human hands, all right – a sprawling cast of crack musicians have crafted this celebratory recording, a work...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022

Nat Steele: Portrait of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Dario Di Lecce | Gabriel Latchin | Nat Steele | Steve Brown

Given both its instrumentation and the album’s title it would be easy to assume that Steele’s new quartet is just...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Michel Petrucciani: The Montreux Years

Michel Petrucciani | Moroslav Vitous | with his quartet and sextet

Taken from four Petrucciani concerts in the 1990s from Montreux Festival director Claude Nobs’ private tape collection, this superbly-packaged two-LP...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023