Jiannis Pavlidis/George Kontrafouris/Adam Nussbaum: Migration

George Kontrafouris | Adam Nussbaum | Jiannis Pavlidis

Nussbaum knows a thing or three about playing with fusioneer guitar men: just ask Messers Scofield and Abercrombie. Migration captures...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Jimmy Lytell: 1926-28

Clarinettist Lyrell was in the Original Memphis Five, and here takes the solo spot in a collection of trios and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Jaimeo Brown: Transcendence

Falu | Andrew Shantz | Chris Solar | Marisha Brown | Jaimeo Brown | Kelvin Sholar | Geri Allen | JD Allen | Selah Brown | Dartanyan Brown

Brown’s illustrious label-mate David Murray, son of a gospel singer no less, has been vocal about the importance of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: This Is The Moment/Quiet Kenny/Inta Somethin'/Matador

J.C. Moses | Charlie Persip | Kenny Dorham | Curtis Fuller | Walter Bishop Jr | Leroy Vinnegar | Paul Chambers | G.T. Hogan | Teddy Smith | Sam Jones

Tough bootin’ tenor sax players and blues-wailin’ guitarists may immediately be associated with Texas, but it should be remembered that...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2013

Nilson Matta's: Black Orpheus

Randy Brecker | Nilson Matta | Gretchen Parlato | Kenny Barron

Recorded in NYC and Rio de Janeiro, this is a brilliant reworking of music featured in the 1956 play Orfeu...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2013

Jeff Williams: The Listener

John Hébert | Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John O'Gallagher

Jeff Williams’ sensitive cymbals and light-touch pulse reflect four decades of drumming with the high and mighty and a CV...

Reviewed by Mike Hobert in issue: July/2013

Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope: Mirage

This Bob Brookmeyer-tutored low reeds specialist writes understatedly for a classy quintet (featuring bassist Lonnie Plaxico) and a string quartet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Martin Speake: Always a First Time

Mike Outram | Martin Speake | Jeff Williams

This double CD wasn’t recorded ‘live’ – that is, it’s not the result of three musicians performing on a stage...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2013

Eyes of a Blue Dog: Rise

Rory Simmons | Chris Hill | Terje Evensen | Elisabeth Nygård

Eyes of a Blue Dog, a name derived from a novella by the Latin American ‘magical realist’ author Gabriel Garcia...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Bill Hardman: Saying Something

One-time Messenger Hardman on imperious trumpet form in his first disc on Savoy from 1961, with exemplary playing from Sonny...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013