Barry Harris: Newer Than New/Listen To Barry Harris

With the Lonnie Hillyer/Charles McPherson frontline that also worked with Mingus, this is a classy quintet, with a solo piano...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Jazz Crusaders: Freedom Sound/Lookin’ Ahead

The first two albums by this group of Houston emigrés, newly ensconced in the West, and laying down a marker...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Compassionate Dictatorship: Entertaining Tyrants

Jasper Høiby | Jez Franks | James Maddren | Tori Freestone

Buoyed by their signing to an indie label and backed by Jazz Services for a major tour, the irrepressible Dictators...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Teamwork

Joe Sample | Nils Landgren | Till Brönner | Magnus Lindgren | Magnum Coltrane Price | Andy Pfeiler | Jonas Wall | Robert Ikiz | Sebastian Studnitzky | Wilton Felder

After the melancholy delicacies of his excellent The Moon, The Stars and You project, Landgren returns to his beloved funk...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet: Here and Now/Another Git Together/… and John Lewis

Later editions of the Jazztet from 1960-2 with Harold Mabern and Cedar Walton, but still with the band’s clear identity,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Donald Brown: Born to Be Blue

Kenneth Brown | Robert Hurst | Marcus Gilmore | Kenny Garrett | Vance Thompson | Wallace Roney | Mark Boling | Ravi Coltrane | Rudy Bird | Donald Brown

Donald Brown follows the classic Jazz Messengers recipe of strong horns, tight grooves and well-crafted arrangements and tweaks it with...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2013

Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live

Tony Bennett | Dave Brubeck

While one track from this 1962 Bennett/Brubeck White House summit (‘That Old Black Magic’) had previously been issued on record,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2013

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet: In a World of Mallets

Dave Potter | Jason Marsalis | Will Goble | Austin Johnson

The youngest Marsalis brother is better known as a drummer, but being a member of that multi-talented family it should...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

Louis Armstrong: New Orleans 1946-47

The “intégrale” Armstrong reaches volume 12 with every scrap he recorded put together in order, with this 3CD box encompassing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Reuben Fowler: Between Shadows

Percy Pursglove | Stan Sulzmann | Gordon Campbell | Sam Mayne | Dave Hamblett | Joe Wright | George Hogg | Reuben Fowler | James Gardiner-Bateman | Alex Munk

The 23-year-old trumpeter Reuben Fowler’s debut album on the Edition label represents part of his prize for winning the Kenny...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013