John Tchicai And Strange Brothers

Ole Rømer | Simon Spang-Hanssen | Peter Danstrup | John Tchicai

Somewhere, there's a parallel reality where, after helping to ignite the New Thing in mid-1960s New York and playing on...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2013

Steve Melling: Keys To The Upper Story

Steve Melling

Melling's work with Peter King, Alan Skidmore and Clark Tracey has led to some people taking his excellent pianism for...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013

Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing | Eivind Opsvik

Drum-led piano trios are always a bit different. There's a unique gravitational pull to the best ones, and that's nothing...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Barbara Long: Soul: The Voice of Barbara Long

Two sessions by this most fleet-voiced of 1960s jazz vocalists, blending perfectly with ensembles featuring respectively Booker Ervin and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Bill Evans: Momentum

Another previously unknown live recording to rival last year's Top Of The Gate release on Resonance, only this time from...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Gene Krupa: Five Classic Albums Plus

The epitome of genuine excitement, drummer Gene Krupa was a true jazz giant and an inspirational figure who was at...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014

Alan Skidmore: TCB

Malcolm Griffiths | Tony Levin | Mike Osborne | Alan Skidmore | John Taylor | John Surman | Chris Laurence

Alan Skidmore's first album, Once Upon A Time (also on Vocalion), remains a personal favourite, yet TCB is at least...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: February/2013

John Stubblefield: Prelude

James Mtume | Cecil Bridgewater | Onaja Allen Gumbs | Cecil McBee | Joe Chambers | John Stubblefield

The playing on this record is so fresh it's hard to accept that it was made 36 years ago. Every...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013

Dave Liebman/Lewis Porter: Surreality

Brad Jones | Marc Ribot | Lewis Porter | Chad Taylor | Dave Liebman

If Dave Liebman in Conversation with Lewis Porter: What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist has not already...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2013

Buddy Rich: Time Out

A storming performance by Buddy Rich's late-1970s big band of pieces captured in live concerts, issued for what would have...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013