Alex Hitchcock Quintet: All Good Things

Alex Hitchcock | James Copus | Jay Davis | Joe Downard | Will Barry

Among the artists Jordi Pujol's Barcelona-based indie label, Fresh Sound New Talent, has been quietly introducing to the jazz world...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Ed Blackwell: Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note

Assembling all of Blackwell's appearances on Black Saint and Soul Note proves a slightly mixed bag but, most importantly, the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Teodross Avery: Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Monk

Teodross Avery

The precocious sax virtuosity that got Teodross Avery a record deal in 1992 while a 19 year-old Berklee College student...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020

Dave McDonnell Group: The Time Inside a Year

On his debut for the cult Chicagoan label, the cutting edge alto saxophonist, in the company of locals Joshua Abrams,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Keith Jarrett: Original Album Series

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Elliott Zigmund | Joe LaBarbera | Larry Schneider | Marc Johnson | Toots Thielemans

This set – with facsimile cover art of the original 12-inch LP reduced to CD size cardboard sleeves – documents...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016

Fletcher Henderson: A Study In Frustration

Benny Carter | Buster Bailey | Charlie Green | Chu Berry | Coleman Hawkins | Don Redman | Fats Waller | Fletcher Henderson | Horace Henderson | Israel Crosby

Originally produced in 1961 as a 4LP anthology set for Columbia by John Hammond and Frank Driggs, this 3CD set...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Keith Jarrett: Mysteries/Shades

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Guiherme Franco | Keith Jarrett | Paul Motian

The albums Mysteries and Shades were drawn from three dates by Jarrett’s ‘American’ quartet on 10, 11 and 12th December...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Richard Jones Trio: Angle Shades

Johnny Hunter | Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley | Richard Jones

The opening moments of this debut recording from a young Mancunian acoustic piano trio sound almost accidental, like walking in...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2023

Fletcher Henderson: Harlem Madness

Overlapping the (still available) 1989 Bluebird anthology Hocus Pocus, this offers an overview of Henderson from 1925-37, but some choices...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Troyka: Ornithophobia

Chris Montague | Joshua Blackmore | Kit Downes

You could say the contemporary electric jazz trio Troyka has acquired a fourth member for their third album on the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015