Robert Hurst: Bob: A Palindrome

Robert Glasper | Robert Hurst | Adam Rudolph | Bennie Maupin | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Marcus Belgrave | Branford Marsalis

You’ll probably best remember Robert Hurst from his Wynton Marsalis days, but currently he tours with Diana Krall and trumpeter...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Roberto Sassi | Roland Ramanan | Javier Carmona

Trumpeter Roland Ramanan (son of the late Shake Keane, trumpeter on Joe Hariott’s most groundbreaking early free-jazz sessions) came up...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013

Tommy Emmanuel/Martin Taylor: The Colonel & The Governor

Tommy Emmanuel | Martin Taylor

Odd how so many guitarists like playing together. Call it a mixture of bravado, ego, or an obsessive competitive streak,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

Thought-Fox: My Guess

Mick Coady | Colm O'Hara | Simon Roth | Tom Gibbs | Lauren Kinsella

Originality being one of the holy grails of jazz, this album, and particularly the work of its remarkable vocalist Lauren...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

Veronica Mortensen: Catching Waves

One of many singer songwriters who passes for jazz by virtue of her quartet (featuring Phronesis drummer Anton Eger) rather...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band: 4 Hlidar

Omar Gudjonsson | Oskar Gudjonsson | Tony Allen | Ingi S. Skulason | Ivar Gudmundsson | Haukur Grondal | Eirikur Rafn Stefansson | David Por Jonsson | Hannes Helgason | Snorri Sigurdarson

The trombonist Samúel Jón Samúelsson’s Big Band take the ice out of Iceland with their slickly grooving cocktail of JBs/Afro-funk,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Kermit Ruffins: We Partyin’ Traditional Style

He’s been compared to having the great Satchmo’s approach, and this trumpeter-vocalist can get a joint jumpin’ with his cabaret...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis: Four Classic Albums: Plus,Count Basie Presents/Very Saxy/Goodies From Eddie Davis/Callin’ The Blu

J.C. Higginbotham | Butch Ballard | Tiny Grimes | Charlie Rice | Arnett Cobb | Shirley Scott | Eddie Lockjaw Davis | Ray Bryant | Joe Newman | Osie Johnson

I believe that at least a couple of these albums may have already been reviewed individually in these pages by...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2013

Sahib Shihab, Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan: Swiss Radio Days Jazz Live Trio Concert Series

Peter Frei | Art Farmer | Peter Schmidlin | Clifford Jordan | Alex Bally | Sahib Shihab | Klaus Koenig

Volume 32 in this series coughs up two tracks apiece from Shihab and Farmer plus three from Jordan, all backed...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2013

Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Joe Morris | Jamie Saft | Balasz Pandi | Trevor Dunn

Here are four heavy-hitters with intertwined musical lives that dip in and out of several weird by-waters, taking in collaborations...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013