Sarah Vaughan: Live in Tokyo

Barry Harris | Leroy Williams | Sam Jones

Recorded at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, in September 1973, this twofer documents the inimitable Sarah Vaughan at the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2016

Sadao Watanabe: Open Road

Fumio Watanabe | Hiroshi Fukumura | Kohsuke Mine | Sadao Watanabe | Syunzoh Ohno | Takehiro Honda | Yoshio Suzuki

Around ten or 12 years ago, at the dawn of the 21st century, a whole rash of previously obscure, out-of-print...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2012

John Stein: Serendipity

Ed Lucie | John Stein | Mike Connors

Although a new name to me, Stein has already issued an array of albums, many on the Whaling City Sound...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hông Quang: Hà Nôi Duo

Alex Tran | Mieko Miyazaki | Ngô Hông Quang | Nguyên Lê | Paolo Fresu | Prabhu Edouard | Stéphane Edouard

I had the pleasure of interviewing Lê before a live audience at a jazz festival in Germany a few years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Peter Jensen & Morten Büchert & The DR Big Band: Light Through Leaves – Carl Nielson Recontextualized

As an unusual alternative to jazz interpretation of classical works, Peter Jensen, a frequent composer-arranger for the Danish DR Big...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

The Avengers: On A Mission

Led by the Uruguayan prog rock hero Beledo on guitar, The Avengers including the ex-Miles Davis musical director/keyboardist Adam Holzman,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

IF: If5

Ben Taylor | Dave Browne | Dave Quincy | Guy Gardner | Rod Brown | Terry Smith

All credit to Quincy and Smith for keeping the flame alive, their revival last year of If (or is it...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016

Donald Byrd: Byrd With Strings

Clare Fisher | Donald Byrd | Doug Watkins | Jimmy Zitano | Julius Baker | Milt Hinton | Osie Johnson | Ray Santisi | Romeo Penke

Though not yet an innovator, Donald Byrd accurately reflected the mood of the time during which these recordings took place....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013

Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions

Eric Eagle | Geof Harper | Wayne Horvitz

Like his former playing partner and fellow concept-bender John Zorn, the Seattle-based player/composer Wayne Horvitz has walked a creative line...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019

Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4: New York Concerts

Barre Phillips | Don Friedman | Jimmy Giuffre | Joe Chambers | Richard Davis

This is a surprise, the tapes of the two concerts having only come to light two years ago. Engineered by...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014