The Paul Dunlea Group: bi-polAr

Michael Buckley | Danny Healy | Davie Ryan | Paul Dunlea | Phillip Collins | Eoin Walsh | Nick Roth

Cork-based trombonist/composer/arranger Paul Dunlea is one of the rising stars of the blooming Irish jazz scene. He's performed alongside the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2013

Count Basie: Basie Plays Hefti

As with much on this label, this is a complete clone of a previous Essential Jazz Albums reissue, formerly out...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

Joe Lovano Us Five: Cross Culture

Francisco Mela | Esperanza Spalding | Joe Lovano | Peter Slavov | Lionel Loueke | Otis Brown | James Weidman

Lovano moves ever onward and upward, in terms of both commercial credibility and artistic maturity, and this third recorded outing...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013

Shelly Manne: 2-3-4

Hank Jones | Shelly Manne | Eddie Costa | Leroy Vinnegar | George Duvivier | André Previn | Coleman Hawkins

Originally a one-off project for Impulse, this sees Shelly stepping out of his LA comfort zone to briefly return to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

Album Interview: Alex Wilson Trio: Trio

Alex Wilson | Frank Tontoh | Tristan Banks | Davide Mantovani

This is the ninth album from British composer/arranger/pianist Alex Wilson but only his first trio set – and it's an...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2013

Quercus

June Tabor | Huw Warren | Iain Ballamy

Often admired outside the world of folk music for her darkly penetrating, hypnotic vocal, June Tabor is also a gripping...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Kyle Eastwood: The View From Here

Andrew McCormack | Kyle Eastwood | Graeme Flowers | Martyn Kane | Graeme Blevins

While his first few rather insipid groove-jazz albums on Candid didn't do him any favours fending off those in the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Nigel Hitchcock: Smoothitch

Laurence Cottle | Richard Cottle | Scott Firth | James Mac | Miles Bould | Dave Milligan | Chris Dagley | Nigel Hitchcock

Pity the poor reviewer faced with an album like this. Titles are listed (most tracks credited to ‘Hitch’) as is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2013

Oscar Peterson: Night Train

Oscar Peterson

As with Ella, Tatum, and Getz, Norman Granz transformed Oscar Peterson into a successful worldwide brand to the point where...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

Charlie Parker: The Complete Royal Roost Broadcasts

Charlie Parker

Were it not for dedicated night owls such as Dean Benedetti and Boris Rose then whole crucial swathes of jazz...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013