Eliane Elias: I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker

Marc Johnson | Oscar Castro-Neves | Victor Lewis | Eliane Elias

When music-making sounds as flowing, effortless and simpatico as this, you know you’re in the hands of masters. Eliane Elias...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2013

John Medeski: A Different Time

John Medeski

This is the first disc on the re-launched, sometime vintage jazz label OKeh (revived by Sony Classical) that promises more...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

The Radio Luxembourg Sessions, The 208 Rhythm Club Vol.3: Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band

Billy Locke | Martin Boorman | Teddy Layton | Mike Taylor | Mac Duncan | Micky Ashman

Vocalion have lately come across a cache of Radio Luxembourg 208 broadcasts that aired in 1961 and 1962, which just...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2013

Nicole Mitchell's Ice Crystal: Aqua Blue

Nicole Mitchell | Jason Adasiewicz | Frank Rosaly | Josh Abrams

Although she has now relocated to California, the Chicago flautist still retains ties to the Windy City and this latest...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

Matt Kane Trio: Suit Up!

From Kansas to New York, Kane is the hard swingin’ drummer in this regular B-3 guitar trio playing covers and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Ray Russell: Now More Than Ever

George Baldwin | Ralph Salmins | Mo Foster | Jimmy Johnson | Anthony Jackson | Ray Russell | Jim Watson | Gary Husband

Why Russell recordings are as infrequent as the number 11 bus remains one of life’s mysteries: so now, more than...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Martin Archer: Blue Meat, Black Diesel & Engine Room Favourites

The Sheffield-based, Evan Parker-inspired eclectic multi-reedist achieves his aims of producing something of the AACM collective spirit with this recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Ketil Bjørnstad: La Notte

Andy Sheppard | Eivind Aarset | Ketil Bjørnstad | Anja Lechner | Arild Andersen | Marilyn Mazur

Ketil Bjørnstadt is more than a pianist, he is a bold, and, as the passage of time has demonstrated, inexhaustible...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2013

Sal Nistico: Heavyweights/Comin’ On Up/It’s Time We Met

Early 1960s sessions by the tenorist, in a swingy quintet with Nat Adderley and Barry Harris, plus a more introspective...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Human: Being Human

Stephen Davis | Alex Bonney | Alexander Hawkins | Dylan Bates

Irish drummer Stephen Davis is best known, thus far, for his work with free jazz mavericks Bourne/Davis/Kane, but this is...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013