Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet: Wis!awa

David Virelles | Tomasz Sta!ko | Thomas Morgan | Gerald Cleaver

The first double album of Sta!ko's career, the first recorded completely in America, the first, with an American band....

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: March/2013

Dick Morgan: At The Showboat/See What I Mean?/Settlin' In

Hard swinging jazz piano from Washington's doyen of pianists, this is a 3-LP on 2-CD package of exemplary piano trio...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Schlippenbach Plays Monk

Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach

German pianist Schlippenbach is best known as one of the original architects of European free jazz, but he's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2013

Robert Mitchell: The Glimpse

Teodosil Spassov | Geetha Bennett | Nando Carneiro | Jaya Deva | Lars Danielson | Paola Fresu | Andy Emler | Trilok Gurtu

Many artists argue that restriction if not limitation can lead to great creative heights and in daring to take...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Frederik Köster Quartett: Momentaufnahme

Ralf Gessler | Robert Landfermann | Tobias Hoffmann | Niels Klein | Frederik Köster

Formed in 2003, trumpeter Frederik Köster's Quartett released two albums, Constantly Moving and Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Time),...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013

Stéphane Kerecki Trio: Sound Architects

Thomas Grimmonprez | Stéphane Kerecki | Tony Malaby | Matthieu Donarier | Bojan Zulfikarpaši!

Stéphane Kerecki, a young double bassist from Paris, has already earned his dues, and has recently recorded in duo...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Ray Barretto: Barretto Para Bailar

Once the omnipresent conga player on 1960s sessions, this has Barretto's first album as leader, plus his 1957...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Keith Jarrett: Hymns/Spheres

Keith Jarrett

This CD is the first re-issue of complete Hymns/Spheres, Jarrett's remarkable series of recordings comprising ‘Hymn of Remembrance’, the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Don Byas Quartet: The Complete 1946-1954 Paris Recordings

with Billy Taylor | Martial Solal | Art Simmons | Maurice Vander | Bernard Peiffer | Beryl Booker | Mary Lou Williams | Don Byas | Jacques Dieval

Were it not for the efforts of Gilles Petard's now dormant French-based Classics label in documenting the recordings of Don...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013

Julius Hemphill: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Andrew Hill | Rufus Reid | Alan Silva | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Ben Riley

Although the Julius Hemphill Sextet, comprising such heavyweights as Marty Ehrlich, Sam Furnace and Tim Berne, has been an effective...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2016