Jon Irabagon: Server Farm

Chris Lightcap | Dan Weiss | John Irabagon | Larry Lorenzo | Matt Mitchell | Mazz Swift | Michael Formanek | Miles Okazaki | Peter Evans | Wendy Eisenberg

Saxophonist Jon Irabagon has proved to be as ambitious as he is prolific over the past decade and this new...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2025

Barney Wilen: Tilt

The French saxophonist, whose record debut was on the Roy Haynes set reviewed last month, was two months short of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2017

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Treffpunkt Jazz 1961

Bob Cunningham | Dizzy Gillespie | Lalo Schifrin | Leo Wright | Mel Lewis

Readers with long memories will remember that this edition of Dizzy's group toured Europe on a double bill alongside former...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2020

Regina Carter: Ella: Accentuate The Positive

Alvester Garnett | Carla Cook | Chris Lightcap | Marvin Sewell | Miche Braden | Regina Carter | Xavier Davis

Featuring beautifully crafted arrangements of beguiling variety and sensuousness, in every lovingly caressed phrase of Ella: Accentuate The Positive, Regina...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2017

Dai Fujikura/Jan Bang: The Bowmaker

Arve Henrikson | Dai Fujikura | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Kati Raitinen | Nils Petter Molvaer | Tamami Tono

Fujikura and Bang create sound worlds at once enigmatic yet strangely certain. ‘Nearly Invisible’, so appropriately titled, could be an...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Various Artists: The Songs of Jule Styne: There Goes That Song Again - His 27 finest 1926-1956

Bing Crosby | Cliff Edwards | Dean Martin | Dinah Shore | Dolly Mitchell | Doris Day | Frank Sinatra | Georgia Carroll | Gordon Macrae | Helen Forrest

London-born but US-based, Jule Styne (real name Julius Stein) rates his place among the great American songsmiths even if he...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2022

Houston Person: Something Personal

Houston Person’s style and sound go way back to that of Gene Ammons with hints of Ike Quebec, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2015

Dominic J Marshall: Nomad's Land

Dominic J Marshall | Glenn Gaddum Jr | Hunrosa | Jamie Beet | Nathaniel Keen | Noa Lauryn | Septabeat

Dominic J Marshall, an Amsterdam-based, Scottish-born composer and versatile multi-keyboardist, has gone down well with the hip dance-jazz underground scene...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Mike Westbrook Concert Orchestra: Marching Song Vol 1 and 2 Plus Bonus

Alan Jackson | Alan Skidmore | Barre Phillips | Bernie Living | Brian Smith | Chris Laurence | Dave Holdsworth | Eddie Harvey | George Smith | Greg Bowen

Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Kriegel Today!

Hans Glawisching | Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn | Jean-Paul Höchstädter | Jesse van Ruller | Jim McNeely | John Schröder | Martin Scales | Steffen Weber | Tony Lakatos

When the Gary Burton Quartet with Larry Coryell appeared at Berlin Jazz Days in November 1967, they may have been...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020