Jaimie Branch: FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise

Ben LaMar Gay | Ben Lamar Gay | Chad Taylor | Dan Bitney | Jaimie Branch | Jason Ajemian | Lester St Louis | Marvin Tate | Matt Schneider | Scott McNiece

Fly Or Die, the debut album from trumpeter Jaimie Branch, popped up on numerous best of the year lists in...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: November/2019

Reggie Washington: Vintage New Acoustic

Bobby Sparks | E.J. Strickland | Fabrice Alleman | Reggie Washington | Ulrich ‘Yul’ Edorh

Ooh, I love a good jazz oxymoron, and the combination of ‘Vintage New’ in the title of this disc from...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Feb/2019

Ben Crosland: Songs of Solace and Reflection

Alan Barnes | Ben Crosland | Clare Bhabra | Deirdre Bencsik | Steve Waterman | Theo Travis

Huddersfield-based bassist-composer (and Jazz Cat label owner) Ben Crosland's latest release, prompted by the 2020-21 pandemic lockdown, comprises rearrangements of...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: March/2023

Louis Armstrong: Complete Louis Armstrong and Dukes of Dixieland

The Assunto brothers’ Dukes of Dixieland was a New Orleans fixture, and here the white and black folks meet for...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

DouBt: Never Pet a Burning Dog

Alex Maguire | Michael Delville | Richard Sinclair | Tony Bianco

Alongside Robert Wyatt, former Caravan vocalist Richard Sinclair's angelic tones were the voice of the Canterbury scene. Guesting here, he...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2010

Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Village Mothership

Matthew Shipp | Whit Dickey | William Parker

This is the first studio album from the heavyweight NYC trio of Whit Dickey, William Parker and Matthew Shipp in...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Georgie Fame: Survival: A Career Anthology 1963-2015

Alan Price | Alan Skidmore | Alec Dankworth | Anthony Kerr | Ben Sidran | Bernie Holland | Bob Malach | Brian Bennett | Brian Odgers | Buddy Beadle

If you wish to judge a man by the company he keeps, then look no further than the Hall of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2017

Karim Maurice, Will Galison & La Camerata: Odysseus Fantasy

Brice Berrerd | Gaël Rassaert | Karim Maurice | La Camerata String Orchestra | Thibaut Pontet | Will Galison

With the help of a piano trio, harmonica, string orchestra and harp, French composer Karim Maurice has turned Homer's Odyssey...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2019

Don Friedman: A Day In The City/Circle Waltz

Despite a rather ropey piano, these original Riverside sessions from he early-1960s reveal a hugely gifted pianist who was regarded...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Miles Davis Quintet: With John Coltrane in Copenhagen 1960

Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Wynton Kelly

This has exactly the same contents and virtually the same booklet design as the reissue from a few years ago...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2012