Bobby Jaspar: Three Classic Albums Plus

The high point of Belgian reedman Jaspar's career: a fine Parisian session in 1955, followed by a period of glory...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Mike Wofford-Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Holly Hofmann | Mike Wofford | Richard Sellers | Rob Thomson | Terell Stafford

Every couple of years or so, veteran West Coast-based husband and wife team pianist Wofford and flautist Hofmann come up...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012

Tubby Hayes: The Best Of Tubby Hayes

Ronnie Scott | Tubby Hayes

For those who haven't picked up Acrobat's indispensible six-pack of Tubb's entire Tempo output, this single disc is a good...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014

Tonbruket: Masters of Fog

Andreas Werliin | Dan Berglund | Johan Lindström | Martin Hederos

Bassist Dan Berglund takes five from recently formed supergroup RYMDEN to record his post-jazz Swedish power quartet Tonbruket's sixth studio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Bengt Berger/Beches Brew: Beches Indian Brew

Akkarai Sisters | B. Shree Sundarkumar | Bengt ‘Beche’ Berger | Doe Kushiator | Göran Klinghagen | Jonas Knutsson | K.U. Jayachandra Rao | Lise-Lotte Norelius | Livet Nord | Max Schultz

Bengt ‘Beches’ Berger, a Swedish jazz drummer, moved to India to study Indian classical music in the 1960s and to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017

Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach: Empathy

Dave Liebman | Florian Van Volxem | Jack DeJohnette | Leo Hendrichs | Richie Beirach

This five CD box set comes with liner notes by Ashley Kahn (no less) and is in essence a celebration...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Barney Wilen/Alain Jean-Marie: Montréal Duets

Alain Jean-Marie | Barney Wilen

Back in the 1950s, French-born but American-raised Wilen was the continental answer to our own Tubby Hayes. Like Hayes, Wilen's...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Hakon Storm: Zinober

Norwegian guitarist goes solo on a specialist selection of acoustic and electric crossing fusion, classical and Mediterranean moods....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Sophie Milman: In the Moonlight

You might think ‘cocktail bar’ on first impressions but this Toronto-based vocalist knows how to tease meaning out of a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Sam Coombes Trio: Pace of Change

Julien Charlet | Sam Coombes | Yoni Zelnik

Sam Coombes' other job is as a French lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, the city in which he currently...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015