Yellowjackets: Rise In The Road

Will Kennedy | Felix Pastorius | Russell Ferrante | Ambrose Akinmusire | Bob Mintzer

The Yellowjackets aren’t so much a band as an institution, so when Jimmy Haslip made his sabbatical from the band...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Stan Getz: At Nalen with Bengt Hallberg

From 1959, these quartets are mainly appearing for the first time: Getz at his lyrical peak with the exceptional Hallberg...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Ceramic Dog: Your Turn

This is Tom Waits/avant-downtown guitarist Marc Ribot’s garage punk power trio, the addition of his own vocals and lyrics still...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Don Cherry: Mu/Orient

Moki Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Han Bennink | Okay Temiz | Don Cherry | Johnny Dyani

This double CD, featuring new liner notes by journalist John Masouri, includes Orient, a record Cherry made with two different...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013

Carmell Jones: The Remarkable/Business Meeting

Two classic albums by the young K.C. born trumpeter, also worth celebrating for Harold Land on tenor and Gerald Wilson’s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Oscar Peterson: Soft Sands

OP was a good Nat Cole-style vocalist, shown to advantage here with Buddy Bregman’s orchestra, plus bonus trio album My...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Tony Barnard’s International Jazz Collective: The Australian Suite

A galaxy of mainstream jazzers from Australia and UK (Jim Watson and Roger Beaujolais among them) perform this Aussie guitarist’s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Alex Welsh: It’s Right Here For You/Echoes of Chicago

Two of the Welsh band’s best albums, both also out on Lake’s Record Supervision series, display Britain’s best Chicagoan style...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Thelonious Monk Trio & Quartet: Unissued Live at Newport 1958-59

Thelonious Monk | Duke Ellington Orchestra | Billy Strayhorn | Roy Haynes | Henry Grimes | Charlie Rouse | Sam Jones | Art Taylor

Previously available on the Gambit label (and reviewed in Jazzwise 127), this compilation combines three Newport appearances that helped to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2013

Caecilie Norby: Silent Ways

Robert Mehmet Ikiz | Leszek Mozdzer | Cæcilie Norby | Marius Neset | Lars Danielsson | Nguyên Lê

This is Norby’s second ACT album, and between them she has neatly encapsulated her formative influences. Daughter of a classical...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2013