Django Reinhardt: The Complete Trios

How many ways can you skin a cat? EJC offer yet another permutation of Django with no rhyme or reason...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Return To Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

Billy Cobham | Rick Laird | Jan Hammer | Jerry Goodman | John McLaughlin

The Columbia years were curious ones for RTF: Romantic Warrior remains the apogee of grandiloquent fusion statements, with all members...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013

Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins Quintet With Horace Silver/Complete Birdland Broadcasts

Roy Eldridge | Connie Kay | Curly Russell | Coleman Hawkins | Horace Silver | Howard McGhee | Art Blakey

The Hawk and Little Jazz worked together so often that you could be excused for believing that they were joined...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2013

Harry Carney: Rock Me Gently

All star Ellingtonians on vacation, this has the Gonsalves/Ashby Two From Duke album added, and Gonsalves on sinuous, sinewy form...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Various Artists: The Hits of João Gilberto

Issued as a companion to El's Gilberto compilation (see above) this is everyone else's hits with his songs, from Getz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Frankie Lewis: The Jazz Cookbook

This young ex-NYJO Essex gal has a vocal influenced as much by Ella-influenced swing as showy R&B in another ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

James Taylor Quartet: Closer To The Moon

Yvonne Yanney | Hugh Gledhill | Ben Taylor | Andrew McKinney | Rob Townsend | Mike Clowes | Nick Smart | James Taylor | Skip McDonald

All credit to Taylor as both musically and psychically he broadens his horizons with his most ambitious release yet. 2011's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013

Klaus Paier and Asja Valcic: Silk Road

Klaus Paier | Asja Valcic

Unlike their earlier collaboration, 2009's Deux, Croatian cellist Asja Valcic has contributed compositionally to add to the Austrian Paier's tunes...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: April/2013

Hugh Lawson/Richard Wyands: Jazzcraft Studio Recordings 1977-78

Lisle Atkinson | Richard Wyands | Bob Cranshaw | Hugh Lawson | David Lee | Ben Riley

The Danish label Jazzcraft seems to have been active during two visits to New York in the late 1970s, and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2013

Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell and Angels

Billy Cox | Jimi Hendrix | Mitch Mitchell | Lonnie Youngblood | Buddy Miles | Juma Sultan

The Hendrix Estate's latest attempt to trawl through the guitarist's well plundered vault of unreleased recordings to extract a supposedly...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2013