Johnny Lytle Trio: Blue Vibes/Happy Ground

Milt Harris | William “Peppy” Hinnant | Albert Heath | Johnny Lytle

Many might only know Lytle from his rare groove track ‘The Village Caller’ which, for a time, was a staple...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2012

Barb Jungr: Stockport To Memphis

Natalie Rozario | Rod Youngs | Barb Jungr | Simon Wallace | Neville Malcolm

Barb Jungr's second album for Naim continues where her 2010 album The Men I Love: The New American Songbook left...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2012

Sophie Bancroft/Tom Lyne: You Turned the Tables on Me

A warmly intimate husband-wife singer/acoustic guitar-bass duo set made up of standards, scats and self-penned originals....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

Jonathan Butler: Grace and Mercy

The South African singer-songwriter/guitarist applies his Christian lyrics to what is now considered the more poppy mainstream end of soul...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in London 1966

Joe Morello | Paul Desmond | Eugene Wright | Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck has always been somewhat misunderstood by the critics, the late Benny Green a dedicated opponent of Brubeck's brand...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012

Joe Hertenstein: Future Drone

Achim Tang | Joe Hertenstein | Jon Irabagon

The genesis of this first-meeting free jazz power trio is in the 2011 Moers festival. Hertenstein and Tang performed there...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2012

Steve Day: Strewn with Pebbles

More quirky social and political observations from an avant-rock/jazz singer-lyricist backed by a spacey, lyrically imaginative jazz trio....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Alan Broadbent Trio: Live At Giannelli Square Vol.2

Putter Smith | Kennedy Kay | Alan Broadbent

Best known perhaps as the pianist of Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Broadbent emerged from New Zealand to study at Berklee...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Tyson Naylor Trio: Kosnauten

An interesting-sounding contemporary Canadian piano trio with an equal preference for traditional melody, groove and rhythmically abstract textures....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Yannah Valdevit: Equilibrium

Hip Brighton label releases debut (co-produced by Zed Bias) from a Croatian singer mixing acid jazz and icy soul with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013