Osibisa: Heads/Happy Children

Robert Bailey | Spartacus R | Mac Tontoh | Teddy Osei | Sol Amarfio | Loughty Lasisi Amao | Wendell Richardson

Although Afro-rock is the term generally applied to one of the great groups to have emerged from London in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013

Eddie Gomez: Per Sempre

Massimo Manzi | Marco Pignataro | Eddie Gomez | Teo Ciavarella | Matt Marvuglio

As the sidemen's names suggest, the album was recorded in Italy where Gomez was last year when I tried to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2013

Muddy Waters: You Shook Me – The Chess Masters Vol 3 1958-1963

Superbly produced 2-CD, 49-track anthology that includes the raw Chicago blues of Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill and the iconic...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Buddy Rich: … And His Buddies

The small groups that Rich led in 1960 before his late great big band are worth investigating and this is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Dean Brown: Unfi nished Business

Muso sidemen who get their kicks on record can sound to the listener like one big R&B-fusion cliché; this veteran...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Dave Hamblett: Light at Night

Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Joe Wright | Alex Munk | Calum Gourlay | Ivo Neame

Some of the brightest young sparks to have come out of jazz classes at the Royal Academy in recent years...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Nils Wogram Septet: Complete Soul

The prolific young trombonist, though inspired by the vintage ensemble sounds of Ellington and Davis-Evans, adds other dynamic world music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

King Curtis: Trouble In Mind + It's Party Time

Mac Pierce | Ernie Hayes | Ray Lucas | Joe Marshall | Heywood Henry | James Sprull | Billy Butler | Noble Watts | King Curtis | Don Covay

Not too much more to add to my King Curtis review that appeared in Jazzwise (issue 170) except that if...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013

Scott McLemore: Remote Location

Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Oskar Guojonsson | Andres Thor | Robert Porhallsson

This is a very pleasant album that does not jar or shock but goes about its business in a very...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Beverly Kenney: Complete Royal Roost Recordings

Had she not committed suicide at 28, Kenney might have been one of the great voices of the 1960s, and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013