Ronny Graupe: Spoom

A young Berlin-based guitarist and his trio play a gently introspective, yet sharply rhythmic contemporary jazz that has an engaging...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Sarah Vaughan: No Count Sarah/After Hours at the London House

The first LP reissued here is Vaughan with the Basie band, sans Basie, and is terrific, but not a patch...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3

Brian Smith | Bud Parks | Pete Jackson | Stan Robinson | John Donnelly | Randy Jones | Bob Sydor | Dave Lynane | Martin Drover | Alan Downey

The letters MF were of course Maynard Ferguson’s initials, but their secondary adjectival meaning also fitted the extrovert Canadian’s prowess...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2013

Johannes Berauer: The Vienna Chamber Diaries

With Gwilym Simcock on piano (label owner Wolfgang Muthspiel is on guitar) and the jazzy nature of the chamber ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

The Whammies: Play The Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 2

Nate McBride | Jeb Bishop | Han Bennink | Jorrit Dijkstra | Mary Oliver | Pandelis Karayorgis

This sextet, drawing on musicians from Amsterdam, Chicago and Boston, doesn’t just get its name from a Steve Lacy tune...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2013

Marc Halbheer’s 5th Edition: Confidence in Symmetry

An experienced Swiss drummer with a very tightly organised set of compositions for quintet that draws largely from jazz-rock, fusion...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Joachim Gies: Mnemosyne

The gestural German saxophonist-composer’s new CD features subtly shifting sonic textures set to texts by Friedrich Hölderlin and Franz Kafka,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Gisle Torvik: Tranquil Fjord

Audun Ellingsen | Hermund Nygård | Gisle Torvik

Torvik is a young Norwegian who came to the guitar late, but with this, his third release, he reveals a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2013

Patrick Cornelius: Infinite Blue

Michael Janisch | Patrick Cornelius | Nick Vayenas | John Chin | Jeff Ballard | Michael Rodriguez | Frank Kimbrough

Bassist and band leader Michael Janisch only set up Whirlwind Recordings in 2010, but it’s already accrued a big and...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2013

Chet Baker: Chet Baker and Crew

A hard swinging quintet from 1956, with Bobby Timmons bringing a different dynamic from the more usual Russ Freeman, creates...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013