Michael Garrick Trio with Don Weller: You've Changed

Michael Garrick | Alan Jackson | Chris Laurence | Don Weller

Recorded live at Wavendon the quartet works through just six numbers, each given an extended airing, this CD reissue...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Ben Goldberg: Unfold Ordinary Mind

Goldberg, who led the New Klezmer Trio in the 1990s, plays bass lines on the rare contra alto clarinet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Tobias Preisig: In Transit

Andrew McCormack | Quentin Collins | Kyle Eastwood | Brandon Allen | Chris Higginbottom | guest Stefano Di Battista

A Zurich-born, Radiohead-inspired, improvising violinist and his quartet perform originals that include a gothic take on Leonard Cohen's ‘Hallelujah’....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

Hampton Hawes: For Real!

A west coast jazz classic originally on Contemporary, with Harold Land and Scott LaFaro in the hard-swinging pianist's quartet. With...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

James Spaulding: Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington

Billy Higgins | Mtume | Steve Nelson | Avery Brooks | James Spaulding | Sam Jones | Cedar Walton

This was the Indianapolis-born Spaulding's debut album as a leader although he had already gained praise as a sideman with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Calvin Weston: Of Alien Feelings

Ex-Ornette Prime Time drummer's gutsy jazz rock/R&B band is rammed with reluctant cult heroes, Todd Rundgren and Vernon Reid among...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

João Gilberto: The Complete 1958-61 Recordings

The three albums (originally on Atlantic and Capitol) that launched bossa nova, nicely repackaged and offering a perfect counterpart to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Shatner's Bassoon: Aquatic Ape Privilege

Oliver Dover | Mike Bardon | Johnny Richards | Andrew Lisle | Craig Scott

Noel Edmonds was one of those who got caught out by surreal comic writer Chris Morris' bogus scam ...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Chris Barber's Jazz Band/Ken Colyer's Jazzmen/Mike Cotton Jazzmen: The Radio Luxembourg Sessions The 208 Rhythm Club – V

Gerry Williams | Mike Cotton | Ian Wheeler | Ottilie Patterson | Eddie Smith | Stu Morris | Ron Ward | Dick Smith | Sammy Rimington | John Bastable

It turns out that Radio Luxembourg, then the commercial alternative to the BBC, ran their 208 Rhythm Club for some...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Ulli Jünemann Quartet: Boo Hoo

A German alto saxophonist-composer in a bop and soul-jazz derived session that has a playful yet edgy cool with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013