Orrin Evans: It Was Beauty

Orrin Evans | Luques Curtis | Ben Wolfe | Donald Edwards | Eric Revis | Alex Claffy

Orrin Evans’ thoughtful and well-programmed piano trio album is partly a round up of the cutting-edge mainstream and partly a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2013

Jutta Hipp: Lost Tapes/The German Recordings 1952-1955

Joki Freund | Harry Schell | Hans Koller | Jutta Hipp | Rudi Sehring | Karl Sanner | Albert Mangelsdorff | Franz ‘Shorty’ Roeder | Attila Zoller

Is this yet another take on the now hackneyed Svengali legend or just a B-movie scenario? On a visit to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013

Edward Simon Trio: Live in New York at Jazz Standard

John Patitucci | Brian Blade | Edward Simon

You know you must be doing something right when you get to work with the same rhythm section as Wayne...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013

Jim Snidero: Stream of Consciousness

Jim Snidero | Rudy Royston | Linda Oh | Paul Bollenback

Now in his early fifties, this fine and underrated Californian altoist plays a slippery and singing alto sax that rides...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: August/2013

Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet

Dave Holland | Chick Corea | Joe Farrell | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | John McLaughlin

Re-releases of rare bona fide jazz classics don’t come around too often, so when they do grab them. This album...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Michel Camilo: What's Up?

Michel Camilo

It’s not a great title, is it? ‘Wassup!?’ – in the manner of those Budweiser ads – would have been...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013

Curtis Amy/Paul Bryant: Meetin’ Here

Classic tenor/organ jazz from Texas saxophonist Amy, and much underrated Hammond star Bryant, with bluesy bonus tracks from Groove Holmes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Herbie Mann: Complete Brazilian Sessions

Mann’s flute meets Jobim, Baden Powell and others on location in Rio in 1962 to create one of his most...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Okay Temiz Trio: Turkish Folk Jazz

Saffet G໮deger | Björn Alke | Okay Temiz

With Turkey currently gripped by political and social turmoil, let’s take a moment to appreciate this proud cry of Turkish...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013

Nigel Kennedy: Recital

Krysztof Dziedzic | Rolf Bussalb | Nigel Kennedy | Yaron Stavi | Barbara Dziewiecka

“All of this repertoire is music which I have either grown up with or feel as if I have grown...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013