Jack Davies' Flea Circus

Aidan Shepherd | Jack Davies | James Opstad | Rob Cope

This trio of releases from 26-year-old trumpeter-and-more Jack Davies constitute an impressive calling card. Davies won the Deutsche Bank award...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012

Enrico Intra/Enrico Pieranunzi: Bluestop Live

A piano duet by two of Italy's finest protagonists of the instrument recorded live in Milan including interpretations of pieces...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Oscar Peterson: On a Clear Day

Louis Hayes | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Oscar Peterson

This particular version of the Peterson trio was not together for very long. It followed the departure of George Mraz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023

Lucky Thompson: Soul's Nite Out

Eric Peter | Lucky Thompson | Peer Wyboris | Tete Montoliu

First released on the Spanish Ensayo label, this session has also appeared on Ogun and Nessa, ahead of this reissue...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016

Charlie Parker: The Complete Royal Roost Broadcasts

Charlie Parker

Were it not for dedicated night owls such as Dean Benedetti and Boris Rose then whole crucial swathes of jazz...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

Keith Jarrett: Creation

Adam Fairhall | Andy Hay | Dennis Russell Davies | Johnny Hunter | Kazuyoshi Akiyama | Keith Jarrett | Michael Bardon | Nat Birchall

These two exemplary albums, released to coincide with Jarrett's 70th birthday on 8 May 2015, are indicative of how the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

David Linx/Maria João/Brussels Jazz Orchestra: A Different Porgy & Another Bess

Brussels Jazz Orchestra | David Linx | Maria João

David Linx and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra follow up their acclaimed 2007 collaboration Changing Faces with an even more ambitious...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2012

Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard

Esperanza Spalding | Fred Hersch

The Hersch/Spalding duo were back at the Village Vanguard in January, to celebrate the release of this album. Spalding eschews...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2023

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Schlippenbach Plays Monk

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach

German pianist Schlippenbach is best known as one of the original architects of European free jazz, but he's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2013

John Coltrane Quartet: Complete 1963 Copenhagen Concert

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

Another bootleg, no doubt – certainly not direct from the Danish Radio tapes, but from the broadcast that saw ‘Impressions’...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016