Aidan O’Rourke: Hotline

This Scottish fiddler-composer’s band for this atmospheric commissioned five-piece suite features excellent tenor saxophonist Phil Bancroft and Scottish harpist Catriona...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Miles Davis: Quintet & Sextet

Miles Davis | Wynton Kelly | Jimmy Cobb | Bill Evans | Paul Chambers | Cannonball Adderley | John Coltrane | Hank Mobley | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

To get the easy bit out of the way first, Quintet & Sextet is a compilation of tracks recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Ron McClure: Ready or Not

Remembered fondly for his 1966-9 stint with the Charles Lloyd group, this veteran bassist-composer captures its youth alongside some of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Bea Benjamin with Dollar Brand: African Songbird

Monty Weber | Basil Coetzee | Bea Benjamin | Louis Spears | Doug Sides | Lionel Beukes | Basil Moses | Dollar Brand | Billy Brooks

Originally released in 1976, African Songbird is the debut album from South Africa’s Sathima Beatrice Benjamin. Along with her husband...

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

Magnus Öström: Searching for Jupiter

Magnus Öström | Andreas Hourdakis | Thobias Gabrielson | Daniel Karlsson

When Magnus Öström’s debut Thread of Life emerged in 2011 it was perhaps inevitable it would be listened to in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

The Impossible Gentlemen: Internationally Recognised Aliens

Adam Nussbaum | Steve Rodby | Gwilym Simcock | Mike Walker | Steve Swallow

Undaunted by the logistical/financial problems of bringing across Messrs. Swallow and Nussbaum from the USA, the Impossible Gentlemen have done...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Patty Peterson: The Very Thought of You

This polished standards singer from Minnesota is a kind of cross between Anita Baker and Diana Krall, and her funk-lite...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Count Basie: On My Way and Shoutin’ Again/Not Now, I’ll Tell You When

Two early 1960s Basie classics, originally on Verve and Roulette, make a good contrast between Neal Hefti’s writing and charts...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Allman Brothers Band: Brothers and Sisters 4CD Deluxe Collection

Superbly expanded set with two 1973 live CDs and a disc of outtakes and jams, the addition of pianist Chuck...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Geoff Eales, Ben Waghorn, Ashley John Long: Free Flow

Geoff Eales | Ashley John Long | Ben Waghorn

This is not your typical Geoff Eales disc. Not that Eales has ever been particularly easy to pigeonhole: Master of...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2013