Alex Cline: For People in Sorrow

Alex Cline | Dwight Trible | Dan Clucas | Sister Dang Nghiem | Mark Dresser | Vinny Golia | G.E. Stinson | Jeff Gauthier | Maggie Parkins | Oliver Lake

The Art Ensemble of Chicago's 1969 album, People in Sorrow, featured a single extended improvisation (split over two sides of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2013

Cal Tjader: Live at Club Macumba, S.F., 1956

‘Have tape, will issue’ seems to be the motto of this very substandard live recording of vibist Tjader with a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Louis Armstrong: The OKeh Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings 1925-33

Baby Dodds | Keg Johnson | Chick Webb | Sid Catlett | Teddy Wilson | Don Redman | Louis Armstrong | Zilner Randolph | Red Allen | Johnny Dodds

The box title should be sufficient recommendation to anyone who doesn't possess this music already. This was the period when...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2013

Don Rendell Quintet: Space Walk

Stan Robinson | Peter Shade | Don Rendell | Jack Thorncroft | Trevor Tomkins

This slab of Brit-jazz was the first full album released by Rendell's new quintet after the split of the Don...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2013

Barry Altschul: The 3dom Factor

Joe Fonda | Jon Irabagon | Barry Altschul

Altschul's first album as a leader for over a quarter of a century feels very much like a retrospective...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2013

Nat King Cole and Quincy Jones: Live in Zurich 1960

Long bootlegged, this is the first ‘official’ release of Cole's broadcast with the Jones orchestra in 1960, and with great...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Bluey: Leap of Faith

Eric Alexander | Johnathan Blake | Doug Weiss

This is the solo debut recording for the Incognito bandleader/guitarist and he comes out as a singer-songwriter too with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Neil Cowley Trio: Live at Montreux 2012

Alex Eichenberger | Neil Cowley | Helen Sanders-Hewett | Julian Ferraretto | Miles Brett | Evan Jenkins | Rex Horan

It can't be easy following Tony Bennett, but that's what the jazz/post-rock NCT did at Montreux's Miles Davis Hall last...

Reviewed by Matt Phillips in issue: June/2013

Album Interview: Sam Crowe Group: Towards the Centre of Everything

Alan Hampton | Adam Waldmann | Emilia Mårtensson | Will Vinson | Mark Guiliana | Sam Crowe | Will Davies

With his remarkably assured debut Synaesthesia in 2011, the London-based pianist Sam Crowe looked like a young man with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

Marek Dorcik | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller | Shabaka Hutchings | Alice Zawadski

This Mancunian-born and raised guitarist-composer has quite recently moved to London having studied composition and performance at Berklee in between...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013