Ben Webster/Harry Edison: Complete Quintet Studio Sessions

Sister album to the same label’s complete collection of sextet sides by Ben and Sweets, this is slightly looser in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Musson/Noble/Sanders: Tatterdemalion

Rachel Musson | Mark Sanders | Liam Noble

Liam Noble is known for playing piano in his own groups, in an avant-garde setting with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013

Ron Jefferson/Tricky Lofton: Love Lifted Me/Brass Bag

Drummer Jefferson and trombonist Lofton but in large and small contexts, their early-1960s collaborations are effective and absorbing, with tenorist...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Scott Willcox Big Band: Go For It!

Some quietly accomplished outer-London jazz circuit players such as Chris Biscoe, Pete Hurt and Tony Woods take the solos on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Eldar Djangirov Trio: Breakthrough

Eldar Djangirov | Joe Locke | Ludwig Afonso | Armando Gola | Chris Potter

Fast. That’s the main word you need to describe 26-year-old Kyrgyzstan-born, New York-based prodigy Eldar Djangirov. Career-wise he’s made very...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013

Jonathan Finlayson and Sicilian Defense: Moment & The Message

David Virelles | Damion Reid | Jonathan Finlayson | Keith Witty | Miles Okazaki

Trumpeter Finlayson has been mostly identified with the bands of Steves Coleman and Lehman, both of them labelmates on Pi....

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/2013

Zoot Sims: Compatibility

The defunct Jump label has been acquired by Delmark who are re-releasing its sessions, of which this 1955 octet gathering...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Pete Canter Quartet: Lightflight

This is the new album by Devon-based saxophonist Pete Canter’s Bristol-based quartet. The band is musically located between the early-1960s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Wynton Marsalis: Swingin' Into The 21st Century

Rodney Whitaker | other Jazz At Lincoln Center orchestra members and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center | Wynton Marsalis | Wessell Anderson | Eric Lewis | Russell Malone | Ted Nash | Wycliffe Gordon | Reginald Veal | Marcus Roberts

This summary of the trumpeter’s prodigious output in a short period of time (between 1999 and 2002), makes for a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013

Oscar Brown Jr and Maggie Brown: We’re Live

Old-fashioned entertainment from a father and daughter duo featuring the vocalese specialist’s tributes to Bird and Lester Young among others,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013