Charles Lloyd: Quartets

Palle Danilesson | Billy Hart | Jon Christensen | Bobo Stenson | Anders Jormin | Charles Lloyd | Ralph Peterson

This five CD-set charts the sublime American saxophonist’s collaboration with brilliant but underrated pianist Bobo Stenson between 1989 and 1996....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2013

David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love

Nasheet Waits | Marc Cary | Jaribu Shahid | David Murray | Macy Gray | Gregory Porter | Bobby Bradford

A new Murray quartet is always something of an event given the illustrious nature of the precedents, and this latest...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series

Toots Thielemans | Bill Evans | Elliott Zigmund | Marc Johnson | Eddie Gomez | Larry Schneider | Joe LaBarbera

OK, I think we all know the Original Album Series drill by now: 5CDs, card repro sleeves, absolute bargain. This...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2016

The Kahil El’Zabar Quartet: What it Is!

A drummer and percussionist who’s a mentor to the next generation of AACM on a cookin’ session packed with 1960s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Tetragonz

Jerry Bergonzi, a gutsily imaginative US saxophonist and admired educator, plays with a fine quartet of young Danish pretenders, the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight

Adam Linsley | Peter Wraight | Henry Armburg Jennings | Stuart Brooks | Pat Hartley | Callum Au | Trevor Mires | Gemma Moore | Graham Harvey | Andy Lester

Well here’s a concept to tickle your imagination. O’Higgins and Wraight have known each other on and off for decades,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Chucho Valdés & the Afro-Cuban Messengers: Border-Free

Ángel Gastón Joya Parellada | Yaroldy Abreu Robles | Chucho Valdés | Reinaldo Melián Alvarez | Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé | Rodney Barreto Illarza | Branford Marsalis

There are few more revered Cuban musicians than Chucho Valdés, linchpin of an emerging latin-jazz dynasty, founder of Afro-Cuban innovators...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2013

Melt Yourself Down

Kushal Gaya | Satin Singh | Leafcutter John | Ruth Goller | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Skinner | Pete Wareham

The label ‘punk jazz’ was being bandied around when Pete Wareham was leading the band Acoustic Ladyland, a trailblazer of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Bing Crosby: Bing In Dixieland

Universal is behind a massive new reissue programme of Bing’s work, and this is one of several long unavailable albums...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Cannonball Adderley: The Quintessence 1955-1960

These 23 tracks from the altoist’s Savoy, EmArcy, Blue Note, Pacific and Riverside issues allow us to trace his development...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013