Led Bib: The People In Your Neighbourhood

Chris Williams | Liran Donin | Mark Holub | Pete Grogan | Toby McLaren

For an instrumental band firmly at home in the jazz scene, Led Bib have always had a conspicuously ‘pop’ approach,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2014

Ayumi Tanaka Trio: Subaqueous Silence

Ayumi Tanaka | Christian Meaas Svendsen | Per Odvaar Johansen

The 35-year-old Japanese pianist moved to Norway 10 years ago, and has recorded one previous album with this trio and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Jim Rattigan: When

Alison Gordon | James Maddren | Jim Rattigan | Julian Tear | Michael Janisch | Nicholas Barr | Nicholas Cooper | Nikki Iles

Three Worlds Records came into being after the formation of the Guild of Horn Players and their releases so far...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2020

If: Live at the BBC

Cliff Davies | Dave Quincy | Dave Wintour | Dennis Elliott | Dick Morrissey | Jim Richardson | John Mealing | JW Hodkinson | Terry Smith

If had a brief but impactful career, perhaps best remembered these days as an early vehicle for saxophonist Dick Morrissey....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2023

John Taylor Sextet: Fragment

Chris Laurence | Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann | Tony Levin

This very welcome blast from the past is well- recorded, and had it been released by the EMI Lansdowne Jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Neil Ardley: A Symphony Of Amaranths

Alan Branscombe | Barbara Thompson | Chris Laurence | Dave Gelly | David Snell | Derek Wadsworth | Derek Watkins | Dick Hart | Dick Heckstall-Smith | Don Rendell

Sometimes a recording is special not for its content but for what it signifies. This welcome, long-awaited first CD release...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013

Various Artists: Masters of Boogie Woogie Piano

Lewis, Ammons, Johnson and Yancey in five-and-a-bit original LPs neatly corralled into this 2CD set, which is a good vade...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club/My Journey Through Literature in Music

Trumpeter Lynch pays homage to a clutch of African-American authors across two discs, sprinkling modern jazz, Caribbean and latin flavours...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live In Tokyo

Charles Tolliver | Clifford Barbaro | Clint Houston | Stanley Cowell

This superb 1974-released live album, recorded on Music Inc’s first Japanese tour, begins in the most Tolliveresque way possible –...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2022

Raúl Gútierrez Y Sus Estrella Cubanas: Son Elegante

Miguelito Valdes

Saxophonist and bandleader Raúl Gutierrez (Irazu, the AfroCuban All-stars) is still firing on all cylinders, having only just released a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021