Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Presenting/Live At the Village Vanguard/Big Band Sound

Hank Jones | Garnett Brown | Jerome Richardson | Bob Brookmeyer | Richard Davis | Pepper Adams | Jimmy Nottingham | Eddie Daniels | Joe Farrell | Jerry Dodgion

Bombastic big-band jazz has never been my thing but this unique outfit was much subtler than the average and arguably...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2013

Stan Getz: Jazz Samba + Big Band Bossa Nova

Stan Getz

Just three short months separates these unauthorised low-fi Birdland airshots and an album, which was to spark the biggest worldwide...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

radio.string.quartet.vienna: Posting Joe: Celebrating Weather Report – Live

Igmar Jenner | Cynthia Liao | Asja Valcic | Bernie Mallinger

The second biggest challenge for anyone taking on the Zawinul/Weather Report canon is what to choose from it. Here, the...

Reviewed by Brian Glasser in issue: May/2013

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

David Weiss | Luques Curtis | Nir Felder | JD Allen | Jamire Williams

Trumpeter David Weiss' current projects include the excellent Cookers, which features serious 1970s era musicians like Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2013

JFK Quartet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington/Young Ideas

1961 hard bop, Messengers-style by a fairly unknown band of young Washingtonians, this ranks as a good complement to any...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

Kevin Harris Project: Museum Vol.1

Kendall Eddy | Rick Dimuzio | Kevin Harris | Steve Langone | Richie Barshay | Jason Palmer

Harris is anything but a household name yet his sideman credits include Eddie Gomez, Cecil McBee and Terri Lyne Carrington...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2013

Tobias Becker Big Band: Life Stream

This young composer-pianist leads a big band set in the classic mainstream tradition with members from right across Germany adding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Patricia Barber: Smash

Larry Kohut | John Kregor | Patricia Barber | Jon Deitemyer

Patricia Barber's Concord Jazz debut sees the vocalist, pianist and composer in the company of a new band and features...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2013

Flat Earth Society: 13

Peter Vermeersch's superb Belgian big band celebrate their 13th birthday with the usual eccentric brand of exuberant, mercurial post-downtown jazz,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Victor Feldman: Swinging on a Star

Victor Feldman | Rick Laird | Ronnie Stephenson

“Britain's finest jazz musician, I think,” Ronnie Scott proudly remarks while introducing an old friend to his club on this...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2013