George Shearing: On the Sunny Side of the Strip/On Stage!

Live Capitol sessions from the 1960 edition of the Shearing quintet in its Latin stage with Armando Peraza on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Sonny Stitt: Only The Blues

Roy Eldridge | Jimmy Jones | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Sonny Stitt | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Stan Levey

Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt may have both drunk from the same well, but you could never mistake ...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013

Tessa Souter: Beyond The Blue

David Finck | Steve Kuhn | Joe Locke | Tessa Souter | Joel Frahm | Gary Versace

On her fourth CD, Beyond the Blue, her second for New York-based Motéma Music, vocalist Tessa Souter dips into...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2013

Eberhard Weber: Résumé

Jan Garbarek | Michael Di Pasqua | Eberhard Weber

Eberhard Weber played over a thousand concerts with the Jan Garbarek group before suffering a stroke from which we all...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Ich Bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson: Va

The Brötzmann-inspired saxophonist from The Thing aided by a Norwegian guitar trio show no mercy in a hollering piece of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions

An easy-going LA trio led by Marcus Burger (alongside experienced LA veterans Bob Magnusson and Joe LaBarbera) whose piano playing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Gratkowski/Brown/Winant + Gerhard E. Winkler: Vermilion Traces/Donaueschingen 2009

Gerhard E. Winkler | Frank Gratkowski | Chris Brown | William Winant

Berlin-based reeds player, Frank Gratkowski, moves equally freely in both avant-jazz and New Music circles, displaying a Braxton-esque ability to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2013

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet: The Complete Sessions

Urbie Green | Barry Galbraith | Paul Quinichette | Milt Hinton | Wynton Kelly | Jerome Richardson | Jimmy Cobb | Joe Newman | Osie Johnson | Billy Byers

In the October 2012 edition of this esteemed journal, I extolled the virtues of a double CD that bundled together...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London

Jim Richardson | Tony Mann | Chet Baker | John Horler

Released in digital download and on video only, Live in London is the pianist Andrew McCormack's second trio album...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Bly de blyant: ABC

This Nordic avant-rock trio, features Jim Black associate, the Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson, and blends moog synth lines with gutsy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013