Jack Teagarden Chicago and All That Jazz: The Dixie Sound of…

Teagarden in 1961 with, on the one hand old Condonites playing blissfully, and on the other his own not quite...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Mishka Adams: Stranger On The Shore

Mar Dizon | Mishka Adams | Simon Tan | Ria Villena-Osorio | Edgar Avenir

Featuring a great track list, sparkling arrangements, plus singing in English, French and Portuguese, this third Candid album by Mishka...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2013

Trio Con Tromba

Bengt Hallberg | Jan Allan | Georg Riedel

Trio Con Tromba was, with good reason, considered Sweden's finest jazz ensemble of the 1980s. A world class “chamber jazz”...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Han Bennink Trio: Bennink # Co

Han Bennink | Joachim Badenhorst | Simon Toldham

No lesser authority than Peter Brötzmann recently told me that, in his opinion, Han Bennink is one of the five...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2013

Ant Law: Entanglement

Tom Farmer | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | James Maddren | Ant Law

Law stares at you from the cover of his debut CD release with the kind of square-jawed intensity that personifies...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Akiko Pavolka: Mahoroba

A pianist-vocalist with her New York-based House of Illusion group (featuring saxophonist Loren Stillman) suggests a more left-field, Japanese language...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Gil Evans Orchestra: Plays The Music of Jimi Hendrix

Gil Evans | Billy Harper | Ryo Kawasaki | David Sanborn | Hannibal Marvin Peterson

This first Evans venture for a then-major label (RCA Victor) may have been intended by the producers as a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016

Kenny Wheeler: Mirrors

Norma Winstone | London Vocal Project | Mark Lockheart | Steve Watts | Pete Churchill | James Maddren | Nikki Iles | Kenny Wheeler

Featuring arrangements of poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and WB Yeats, the 11-movement Mirrors suite represents a completely...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2013

Nicolas Meier: From Istanbul To Ceuta With A Smile

Gilad Atzmon | Bernard Gregor-Smith | Demi Garcia | Asaf Sirkis | Lizzie Bell | Pat Bettison | Nicolas Meier | James Pearson

For nearly a decade, Meier has worked joyously towards mixing Turkish, Arabic and various Eastern musics within a jazz-fusion medium....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President 2

Fela Kuti

And so the Fela Anikulapo Kuti bandwagon keeps rolling, its wheels nicely oiled by the success of FELA!, the musical...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2013