Lou Marini: Starmaker

New York-based big session sax man (James Taylor, Blues Brothers, Dr John) has performed with Buddy Rich/Thad Jones too and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out

Frank Zappa

As a result of the Zappa Family Trust regaining control of their album catalogue from Rykodisc, and signing a new...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2012

Fred Hersch Trio: Alive at the Vanguard

John Hébert | Eric McPherson | Fred Hersch

While some jazz fans may live in a particular place in the past – say 1961 at the Village Vanguard...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: November/2012

Horace Silver: That Healing Feelin'/Total Response

Houston Person | Jackie Verdell | Harold Vic | Randy Brecker | Gail Nelson | Salone Bey | George Coleman | Andy Bey | Mickey Roker | Idris Muhammad

To all intents and purposes, this is Señor Blues at his most hippie dippy'd, delivering two albums under the banner...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Charlie Rouse: Yeah!/We Paid Our Dues/Takin' Care Of Business!/Getting' Into Somethin'

Peck Morrison | Earl May | Curtis Fuller | Dave Bailey | Horace Parlan | Walter Bishop Jr | Gildo Mahones | Clark Terry | Charlie Rouse | Billy Gardner

When, in 1959, Charlie Rouse took over the tenor sax chair in Thelonious Monk's Quartet, it could have turned out...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2012

Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton: 'Round Midnight

Rossano Sportiello | Harry Allen | Scott Hamilton | Chuck Riggs | Joel Forbes

Hearing these two together, like master and pupil, at Norwich recently was a joy. And so it is here. Neither...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012

Brötzmann/Satoh/Moriyama: Yatagarasu

Takeo Moriyama | Peter Brotzmann | Masahiko Satoh

When Peter Brötzmann helped launch European free-jazz back in the late- 1960s/early-70s, his close working relationship with Belgian pianist Fred...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2012

Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: The Complete Studio Recordings

Hank Jones | Bill Crow | Roger Kellaway | Bob Brookmeyer | Dave Bailey | Clark Terry | Bob Cranshaw

When in 1954, Clifford Brown moved from Blue Note to Mercury his new label realised that they had acquired a...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015

Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Fuller | Shamie Royston | Terri Lyne Carrington | Rudy Royston | John Patitucci | Mimi Jones | Shirazette Tinnin | Dianne Reeves

Although her membership of Beyoncé's band is one of the prime talking points in the alto saxophonist's career, one could...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Charlie Byrd: Brazilian Byrd/Hollywood Byrd

Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd had kept a low profile before his 1962 Jazz Samba album with Stan Getz, but when his big...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2012