Brian Kellock/Cathrine Legardh: Love Still Wears a Smile

The strongly admired Scottish pianist accompanies a rhythmically astute, expressive Danish jazz singer in an interesting duo set on carefully...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Philip Catherine: Côté Jardin

Now 70 years old, this London-born Belgian fusion guitar legend recruits a young quartet and demonstrates too his warm lyricism...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Basquiat Strings: Part Two

Richard Pryce | Dave Smith | Jennymay Logan | Ben Davis | Seb Rochford | Amanda Drummond | Vicky Fifield | Emma Smith

I saw Basquiat Strings at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion in 2008, not long after they were nominated for the...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013

Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon: Quartet

Although this is billed as a Shepp-Dixon release it is a welcome overview of some of the important sessions that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Sammy Price: Three Classic Albums Plus

Boogie and blues specialist Price led some fine sessions, the highlights here being his sextet’s collaboration with Sidney Bechet, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Wes Montgomery: The Montgomeryland Sessions

Bob Johnson | Walter Bolden | Harold Land | Freddie Hubbard | Wayman Atkinson | Gildo Mahones | Wes Montgomery | Tony Bazley | Paul Parker | Pony Poindexter

This two-disc set contains another mixed bag of goodies from the Montgomery brothers in their undiscovered days, recorded speculatively or...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

The 208 Rhythm Club Vol 6: Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band

Monty Sunshine | Beryl Bryden | Geoff Sowden | Nick Nicholls | Dickie Bishop | Rod Mason | Gerry Salisbury

Vocalion have lately come across a cache of Radio Luxembourg 208 broadcasts that aired in 1961 and 1962, which just...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2013

Sam Jones: Soul Society/The Chant/Down Home

Mainly twanging away on cello, Jones shows his nimble improvising chops aside from his rock-solid bass playing, in an octet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Susanne Abbuehl: The Gift

Susanne Abbuehl | Wolfert Brederode | Matthieu Michel | Olavi Louhivuori

It begins quietly, oh-soatmospherically – this is an ECM album, after all – with Susanne Abbuehl’s voice on opener ‘The...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2013

Archie Shepp and The Full Moon Ensemble: Live In Antibes

Claude Delcloo | Archie Shepp | Alan Shorter | Clifford Thornton | Joseph Dujean | Beb Guerin

Another reissue from the Actuel vaults presents not so much an American in Paris as Americans and Frenchmen in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013