George Adams: Complete Remastered Albums on Black Saint and Soul Note

George Adams | Don Pullen | Jimmy Knepper | Mike Richmond | Cameron Brown | Hugh Lawson | Dannie Richmond

George Adams was lead saxophonist of the last great quartet of Charles Mingus – the 1974 Atlantic albums Changes 1...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2013

Letizia Gambi: Introducing Letizia Gambi

Lenny White | Letizia Gambi | Ron Carter | Patrice Rushen

It's a truly remarkable story: after a 2009 gig in Milan with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Lenny White is...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2013

Ivo Perelman: The Clairvoyant/Living Jelly/The Gift

Joe Morris | Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman | Whit Dickey | Gerald Cleaver

This is the art of the trio dealt with three very different ways. Perelman's tenor sax is heard with piano...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013

Burton Bradstock: All Upon a Lovely Summer's Day

Riaan Vosloo | Tim Giles | Nozomi Cohen | Burton Bradstock | Julian Ferraretto | Joanne Davies | Robin Martin | Dave Ohm | Rosalind Gladstone | Dorian Ford

Burton Bradstock is not only the name of a village down on Dorset's Jurassic coast, it's also the alter ego...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013

Soothsayers: Human Nature

From their first incarnation as a swinging, heavily South-African inflected jazz ensemble, trumpeter Robin Hopcraft and saxophonist Idris Rahman have...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Joe Pisto: London Vibes

An Italian jazz singer combines exuberant scatting and crooning styles with a crack straight ahead team of London-based musicians including...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Johnny Griffin: The Little Giant/Change Of Pace

Albert Heath | Julian Priester | Larry Gales | Wynton Kelly | Julius Watkins | Sam Jones | Blue Mitchell | Bill Lee | Ben Riley | Johnny Griffin

From the mid-1950s through to the mid-60s, it appeared that Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside labels all had easy access...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2013

Simon Nabatov: Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols

Virtuoso classical-rooted Russian pianist in typically garrulous mood paying tribute to a more subtly innovative pianist in a solo CD...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Ben Holmes Quartet: Anvil of the Lord

A Brooklyn-based trumpeter who favours Balkan and klezmer melodies in a quartet in which trombonist Curtis Hasselbring is always in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Tom Gibbs: Fear of Flying

Euan Burton | Tom Gibbs | Will Vinson | James Maddren

Pianist Tom Gibbs comes from Glasgow, current hotbed for the new jazz generation in Scotland. He is a member of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013