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

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