Chet Baker: Sings: It Could Happen To You

Chet’s 1958 vocal album with Kenny Drew makes one yearn for more trumpet and less singing, and fortunately that happens...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Various Artists: All Night Long OST

Stan Roderick | Tubby Hayes | Johnny Scott | Johnny Dankworth | Charles Mingus | Kenny Napper | Dave Brubeck | Allan Ganley | Colin Purbrook

Originally released on CD in 2004, the 1960s soundtrack CD specialist label Harkit reissue this British jazz soundtrack: a fascinating...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Bobby Hutcherson: Somewhere in the Night

Joey DeFrancesco | Bobby Hutcherson | Joey Defrancesco | Byron Landham | Peter Bernstein

At 71, Bobby Hutcherson is one of jazz's most distinguished survivors, a long-serving vibraphonist with consistently good taste and a...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Chambr: Freewheel

Nick Tyson | Ben Trigg | Seabastian Hankins | Paul Baxter | Charlotte Glasson | Ruth Gibson

Dropping the letter ‘e’ from its previous touring moniker Chamber, talented guitarist and composer Tyson – who straddles both the...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Seth McFarlane: Music Is Better Than Words

Joel McNeely | Seth McFarlane | Andy Martin | string section | Norah Jones | Larry Koonse | Chuck Findlay | Alan Broadbent | Pete Christlieb | Chuck Berghofer

If you’re the producer of TV's Family Guy and now the director of a current feature film (Ted), presumably you...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Gogo Penguin: Fanfares

Grant Russell | Rob Turner | Chris Illingworth

Recording for Giles Peterson favourite trumpeter Matthew Halsall's label, the Manchester-based fledgling piano trio Gogo Penguin on first impressions seem...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Amina Figarova Sextet: Twelve

A journeying Azerbaijani pianist who recently moved from Holland to New York and here alongside her excellent flautist partner Bart...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Philip Dizack: The End of an Era

Maria Jeffers | Aaron Parks | Matt Aronoff | Jake Saslow | Linda Oh | Brooke Quiggins Saulnier | Nora Krohn | Kendrick Scott | Sam Harris | Philp Dizack

New generation trumpeter Philip Dizack's second album is a heartfelt probe into the melancholy of personal loss and rage in...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Josh Berman and his Gang: There Now

Something Chicago musicians do best: a hybrid of ancient to the future by a band led by trumpeter Josh Berman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Duke Ellington: Treasury Shows, Vol. 16

Two full–length broadcasts from October and November 1945, plus material from 1943, add high quality Ellington performances to the commercially...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013