Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin | Scott Colley | Chris Potter | Eric Harland

Criss Cross boss-producer Gerry Teekens is astonishingly loyal to his artistes. Take Russian trumpeter Sipiagin, for years now an in-demand...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013

The Callum Au Big Band: Something's Coming

Jon Russell | Henry Armburg Jennings | Richard Shepherd | Ed Richardson | Tommy Laurence | Callum Au | Ross Anderson | Barry Clements | Chris Eldred | Jim Gold

You have to admire a can-do attitude in a musician. Callum Au was barely out of diapers when he became...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013

Illinois Jacquet: Swing's The Thing

A fine session originally on Verve, with Roy Eldridge sparring along with Jacquet, and neatly backed by pianist Jimmy Jones...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Marc Ducret | Banz Oester | Gerald Cleaver | Samuel Blaser

This is the same quartet featured on the acclaimed 2010 release Boundless and it is equally impressive both in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Ivan Lins/SWR Big Band: Cornucopia

A Brazilian theme for this lively affair featuring Rio's grammy-winning vocal and songwriter icon, heading up a high profile Stuttgart...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Aruán Ortiz & the Camerata Urbana Ensemble: Santiarican Blues Suite

For this classical-based chamber suite for octet, this pianist draws from the minutiae of pan-Cuban traditions and nineteenth century African...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Mary Halvorson/Stephan Crump: Super Eight

Mary Halvorson | Stephan Crump

Double bass and guitar make for a glorious double act. It's particularly glorious when the guitar is in the hands...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2013

Ben Webster: Live in Vienna 1972

Very late Ben Webster with a European band, this lacks the lustre of his Copenhagen recordings, and is not the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Arnett Cobb: Party Time/More Party Time/Movin' Right Along

Gritty tenor, Texan style, from Cobb on blistering form with Ray Bryant's trio, and amid the roaring blues, there are...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Peter King/Alan Skidmore: Forever Elvin

Alec Dankworth | Alan Skidmore | Peter King | Martin Drew | Steve Melling

This album is worth owning for several reasons. Firstly it celebrates the excellence of two of Britain's finest straight-ahead saxophonists....

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013