Vesna Pisarovic: With Suspicious Minds

They might well be the first jazz group to play Elvis and it's a wacky attempt by an ex-Eurovision Croatian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Nat Adderley: Nat Adderley Four Classic Albums That's Nat Adderley/Introducing Nat Adderley/To The Ivy League/Much Brass

Hank Jones | Charles Wright | Wynton Kelly | Jerome Richardson | Laymen Jackson | Wendell Marshall | Nat Adderley | Roy Haynes | Kenny Clarke | Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath

Though he managed to carve out a solo career while still a member of brother Cannonball's various quintets and sextets,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012

Bill Barron: Quintet and Sextet

Three LPs on two CDs by a tenorist who deserves to be better known, particularly in his quintet with trumpeter...

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

Lucy Ann Polk: But Beautiful

Formerly Les Brown's vocalist, Polk came off the road and devoted herself to studio work with Marty Paich and Dave...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2013

Emmanuel Bex/Gérard Marais/Aldo Romano: Poisson Nageur

A 1992 organ trio that paid homage – but never copied – the classic Eddy Louiss, René Thomas, Kenny Clarke...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1971-1975

Don Um Romao | Leon ‘Ndugu’ Chancler | Airto Moreira | Wayne Shorter | Miroslav Vitous | Alex Acuna | Alphonse Mouzon | Alphonso Johnson | Eric Gravatt | Joe Zawinul

Of all the groups that emerged fired up and ready-to-roll in the first golden dawn of early-1970s jazz-rock fusion Weather...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: October/2012

Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Jason Lindner | Paquito D'Rivera | Joe Martin | Gilmar Gomez | Wycliffe Gordon | Anat Cohen | Daniel Freedman

Israeli-born Cohen (sister of trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval) is a highly visible presence on the New York scene. I've...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2012

Andrea Marcelli Trio: Sundance

A well-travelled, sensitive Italian drummer with a preference for lush, romantic song that's right up the energetic Danish postbop pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Grimal, Konitz, Peacock and Motian: Owls Talk

Lee Konitz | Gary Peacock | Paul Motian | Alexandra Grimal

Alexandra Grimal is a fine, young French saxophonist based in New York. Owls Talk finds her in the company of...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012

Sophie Milman: In the Moonlight

You might think ‘cocktail bar’ on first impressions but this Toronto-based vocalist knows how to tease meaning out of a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012