Phil Woods: Right To Swing

The veteran Woods, an alto sax bebop demon to rival any, performs with the DePaul University ensemble with a set...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

William Russo/Kenny Baker: Russo In London/Kenny Baker-Blowing Up A Storm

William Russo | Ron Simmonds | Kenny Baker

Vocalion can always be relied upon to seek out those albums that, with the passing of time, might otherwise have...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2013

Various: Just Not Cricket!

Tony Bevan | Gail Brand | Mark Sanders | Trevor Watts | Steve Beresford | Rhodri Davies | John Edwards | Eddie Prévost | Orphy Robinson | Lol Coxhill

The recordings on these four LPs are culled from a three-day festival of British improv held in Berlin at the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2013

Urbie Green: Five Classic Albums

Hank Jones | Percy Heath | Curley Russell | Tommy Potter | Max Roach | Thelonious Monk | Kenny Dorham | Roy Haynes | Charlie Parker | Don Lamond

The great trombonist has been poorly served by reissues, and this set puts the matter right, with the pick of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2020

Dave King: I've been Ringing You

This isn't what you might expect from the drummer of The Bad Plus, but anyone familiar with pianist Bill Carrothers'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Giovanni Guidi Trio: City of Broken Dreams

Giovanni Guidi | Joao Lobo | Thomas Morgan

Voted Best New Talent in 2007 by the Musica Jazz critic's poll, Giovanni Guidi previously appeared on Enrico Rava's ECM...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013

Jaleel Shaw: The Soundtrack of Things to Come

Boris Kozlov | Jaleel Shaw | Lawrence Fields | Johnathan Blake

Ever since hearing – and being moved by – an eight-bar solo on a track called ‘Pieces of a Dream’...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013

Matthias Schriefl: Six, Alps & Jazz

Martin Seiler | Gregor Bürger | Priska Schrielf | Matthias Schriefl | Bodek Janke | Federico Aluffi | Niels Klein | Florian Trübsbach | Johannes Bär | Peter Heidl

Young German jazz trumpeter Matthias Schriefl came to fore in his native land fronting an outfit called Shreefpunk. The aforementioned...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013

Johannesson, Schultz and Berglund featuring Jacob Karlzon: Cause and Effect

Kit Massey | Tim Fairhall | Paweł Grudzień | Diane McLoughlin

Although there is an evocative retro feel, in that this music shimmers in time to the highly creative jazz and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019

Kari Ikonen Trio: Bright

Kari Ikonen | Ara Yaralyan | Markku Ounaskari

There is no doubt that some of the most interesting music emerging from the current European jazz scene is from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013