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

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