McCoy Tyner Trio: Bon Voyage

Avery Sharpe | McCoy Tyner | Louis Hayes

Tyner has since the 1980s benefited from not signing lengthy contracts with particular labels and, prolific as a result in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2013

Tingvall Trio: In Concert

Norma Winstone | John Taylor

Almost without anyone noticing here in the UK, the Tingvall Trio have been climbing up the European rankings. In Germany,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Grant Green: First Recordings

Grant Green | Gene Ramey | Jimmy Forrest | Elvin Jones | Harold Mabern

As every jazz historian will tell you, a shedload of momentous recordings were made in 1959, including Kind Of Blue,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

Joanie Sommers: Positively The Most/The Voice of the 60s/For Those Who Think Young

No amount of great arranging from Marty Paich and Nela Hefti can conceal Sommers’ inadequacy as a singer, only worth...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias

Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Anthony Tidd | Miles Okazaki | Steve Coleman

Every Coleman album has a specific theme or concept and this latest offering is inspired by a subject that is...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

Enrico Pieranunzi with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard

Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Anthony Tidd | Miles Okazaki | Steve Coleman

In the period prior to his passing towards the end of 2011, drum great Paul Motian contributed to a number...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2018

New Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe

Barbara Thompson | Harry Beckett | George Smith | Dave Gelly | Derek Watkins | Tony Russell | Henry Lowther | Jon Hiseman | Michael Gibbs | Derek Wadsworth

Details are murky but the Internet seems to suggest unspecified ‘legal reasons’ for why this classic of 1960s Brit-jazz has...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013

Karin Krog and Morten Gunnar Larsen: In a Rag Bag

The folky Norwegian jazz singer alongside a compatriot on the piano, take a journey back to early jazz, working their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Bing Crosby: The Crosby/Clooney Radio Sessions

With a new bio of Clooney (Late Jazz Life) due out this month, this 2CD set is ideally timed and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

George Colligan: The Facts

Jaleel Shaw | Boris Koslov | Donald Edwards | George Colligan

Now 43, Colligan has been recording – on umpteen keyboard instruments and with various sized combinations – for Nils Winther’s...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013