Miles Davis: Unissued Café Bohemia Broadcasts

Allen Eager | Miles Davis | Gerry Mulligan | Max Roach | Art Farmer | Bill Evans | Candido Camero | Paul Chambers | Kenny Burrell | John Coltrane

Well, here’s a turn-up – 40 minutes of the first Miles quintet that is genuinely unissued. Recorded off-air but with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2013

Alex Sipiagin: From Reality and Back

Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Alex Sipiagin | Dave Holland | Antonio Sánchez | Seamus Blake

Russian-born New Yorker Sipiagin already has 13 CDs as leader to his credit plus two as co-leader of Opus 5,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013

Jonathan Silk Big Band with Percy Pursglove: Uncouth

Tobie Carpenter | Percy Pursglove | Jonathan Silk | Chris Maddock | Richard Foote | Joe Wright | Mike Fletcher | Tom Dunnett | Rob Anstey | Sam Wooster

Now there’s a perverse title if you like. The Jonathan Silk Big Band’s sound isn’t quite as smooth as its...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2013

Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered

Tim Berne | Ches Smith | Mary Halvorson | Andrea Parkins | Tony Malaby

There’s been considerable crossover already between these superb musicians. Tim Berne, usually heard introducing hints of Stax soul into his...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2013

Phil Meadows Group: Engines of Creation

Laura Jurd | Phil Meadows | Simon Roth | Conor Chaplin | Elliot Galvin

Bolton-born saxophonist Phil Meadows, currently the lead alto in NYJO, graduated from Trinity Laban only last year. Versatile and well-educated,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Joachim Kühn: Cinemascope

Gerry Brown | John Lee | Joachim Kühn | Zbigniew Seifert | Toto Blanke

German pianist/saxophonist Kühn has just released a stately album of deep jazz featuring Archie Shepp and guembri player Majod Bekkas....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2013

Bystrov Bledsoe: Lapin Trioloque

Recorded live in St Petersburg, this trio made up of reeds, flute and piano favours the quieter, dreamy, meandering aspects...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: The Duke at Fargo 1940

Rex Stewart | Joe ‘Tricky Sam’ Nanton | Harry Carney | Wallace Jones | Herb Jeffries | Juan Tizol | Ivie Anderson | Fred Guy | Sonny Greer | Duke Ellington

Danish label Storyville last issued their double-CD of this legendary ‘live’ Ellington dance date in 2000, labelled reasonably enough as...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2013

Black Host: Life in the Sugar Candle Mines

Good to see NYC’s mesmerising cutting-edge drummer Gerald Cleaver back at the helm of a band and this quintet’s mix...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

The Clive Fenner Quartet: Get It!

Mark Ridout | Martin Hathaway | Clive Fenner | Geoff Gascoyne

Jazz is all about making it up as you go along, so in many ways what you get on this...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2013