Herbie Mann: Four Classic Albums (Second Set)

Two sextet albums with fellow flautist/tenorist Bobby Jaspar from March 1957 are the highlight here, the later nonet and live...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Jürgen Friedrich: Monosuite

A Cologne-based composer sets up an epic third stream dialogue between 22-piece string orchestra and improvisers, with John Hollenbeck on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Sean Foran: Frame of Reference

Ben Davis | Joost Hendrickx | Julian Argüelles | Sean Foran | Stuart McCallum

Sean Foran is the award-winning pianist-composer behind Trichotomy, a contemporary Brisbane-based piano trio that has released three acclaimed albums in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Zappa/Mothers: The Roxy Performances

Bruce Fowler | Chester Thompson | Frank Zappa | George Duke | Napoleon Murphy Brock | Ralph Humphrey | Ruth Underwood | Tom Fowler

This sumptuous 7CD box set features the complete recordings of Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention performing live over...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2018

Roscoe Mitchell: Four Sure

Jerzy Mazzoll | Qba Janicki | Roscoe Mitchell | Slawek Janicki

If Art Ensemble Of Chicago's 2019 London Jazz Festival performance showed how inventive Roscoe Mitchell is when a dozen so...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Myra Melford Trio: Alive In The House of Saints – Part 1

Lindsey Horner | Myra Melford | Reggie Nicolson

I remember being mightily impressed when I heard the second-generation reissue of this album – back in 2001, when it...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: September/2017

Victor Gould: Earthlings

Dezron Douglas | Eric McPherson | Godwin Louis | Kahlil Kwame Bell | Tim Warfield | Victor Gould

One of my favourite 2017 albums was the auspicious debut of pianist-composer Victor Gould. As he says here, it placed...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2018

Frank Lacy & The Smalls Legacy Band: Live at Smalls

Frank Lacy | Josh Evans | Kush Abadey | Rashaan Carter | Stacy Dillard | Theo Hill

In his own way, Ku-umba Frank Lacy is something of a living legend. The one-time Jazz Messengers' musical director has...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2014

Marcus Printup: Young Bloods

Allyn Johnson | Coleman Hughes | Dezron Douglas | Marcus Printup | Patrick Bartley | Ulysses Owens

As a newcomer in his 20s, the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra trumpeter was given a leg up by mature...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: March/2016

Shawn Maxwell: Millstream

Chicago-based saxophonist-educator Maxwell demonstrates an oddly quirky mix of post-bop fusion, funk, prog and African music and more with his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020