Craig Taborn: Chants

Thomas Morgan | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver

Lost as it may be in the bottomless pit of early millennial recordings, Taborn's Light Made Lighter is one of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Tim Warfield: Eye of the Beholder

Tim Warfield | Rodney Whitaker | Cyrus Chestnut | Nicholas Payton | Clarence Penn

Tim Warfield's meaty tone, sharp articulation and carefully constructed themes have strong roots in the soulful, boundary-nudging Blue Note aesthetic...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013

Tony Kinsey: The Tony Kinsey Collection 1953-61

Tubby Hayes | Les Condon | Art Ellefson | Bob Efford | Jimmy Deuchar | Don Rendell | Lennie Bush | Ken Wray | Alan Branscombe | Tony Kinsey

Here are drummer Kinsey's mid-twentieth century small group recordings spread over six rewarding CDs. 105 tracks in all, quartets and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2013

Mansur Scott: Harlem Quartet

The poised blues-rooted vocalist and percussionist, known as ‘the jazz mayor of Harlem’, is here with a quartet singing from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

New York Voices: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jason Marsalis | Jasen Weaver | Oscar Rossignoli

Backed by the hard driving swing of the WDR Big Band, here's a live vocal ensemble from Cologne drawing from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Gail Brand/Morgan Guberman: Dig a Ditch and Get in

UK-based avant garde trombonist Brand and American vocalist Guberman join forces after their last get together all of 10 years...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Metamorphic: Coalescence

Hannes Riepler | Jon Scott | Ryan Trebilcock | Andre Canniere | Ivo Neame

This follow-up to their 2011 F-ire debut, The Rock Between, sees the London-based jazz/folk sextet serving up another compelling and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2014

Nicolas Masson, Roberto Pianca, Emanuele Maniscalco: Third Reel

Emanuele Maniscalco | Nicolas Masson | Roberto Pianca

This new Swiss-Italian trio are signed to ECM and, appropriately enough, they make a very ECM-ish sound. Is that, one...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013

Thelonious Monk: Two Hours with Thelonious

Full versions of Paris and Milan events from Monk's first quartet tour of Europe in 1961, originally anthologised on Riverside,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Brooklyn Babylon

James Hirschfeld | Matt Holman | Jon Wikan | Nadje Noordhuis | Tom Goehring | Sebastian Noelle | John Ellis | Sam Sadigursky | Jennifer Wharton | Erica von Kleist

Ambition is one thing Brooklyn-based composer Darcy James Argue sure ain't short on. Having secured a Grammy nomination for...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013