Thelonious Monk: Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection

Larry Gales | Thelonious Monk | John Ore | Frankie Dunlop | Charlie Rouse | Jon Hendricks | Butch Warren | Ben Riley

The Sony box presents a dramatic contrast to their superior Mingus collection. The six albums covered have a very consistent...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans

Ryan Truesdell | Donny McCaslin | Marcus Rojas | Jay Anderson | Gil Evans | Charles Pillow | Joe Locke | Lewis Nash | Romero Lubambo | Wendy Gilles

A fascinating project that exhumes previously unrecorded scores by Evans, for a top-ranking New York personnel. Five of them were...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Booker Ervin Sextet, Quintet and Quartet: The Book Cooks/Cookin'/That's It!

Booker Ervin | Horace Parlan | George Tucker | Zoot Sims | Dannie Richmond | Richard Williams | Al Harewood | Tommy Flanagan | Tommy Turrentine

Booker Ervin was yet another gifted jazz musician who fell well short of racking up his allotted three score and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012

The Cloudmakers Trio: Live at the Pizza Express

Michael Janisch | Ralph Alessi | Dave Smith | Jim Hart

The versatile first-call vibraphonist Jim Hart has recently been nominated in the vibes category for the 2012 Downbeat poll, a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

JD Allen Trio: The Matador and the Bull

Rudy Royston | JD Allen | Gregg August

This is JD's fourth album with his pianoless Trio, the previous three (I Am I Am, Shine and Victory!) having...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2012

Peter Appleyard: Sophisticated Ladies

A bevy of Canadian jazz singers head a sprightly 84-year-old ex-Benny Goodman vibes legend's standards quintet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Album Interview: ‘Stonephace’ Stabbins: Transcendental

Zoe Rahman | Pat Illingworth | Karl Rasheed-Abel | Crispin ‘Spry’ Robinson | Larry Stabbins

This could be seen as a mini satellite of the Spatial AKA Orchestra, as it is essentially one of its...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012

Dafnis Prieto: Proverb Trio

Jason Lindner | Kokayi | Dafnis Prieto

This is a remarkable group – and recording. Dafnis Prieto is the revolutionary Cuban drummer, who has recently been awarded...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2012

Ronnie Ross: Stompin' with the Ronnie Ross Quintet

Andy White | Peter Blannin | Bert Courtley | Ross | Eddie Harvey

Born in Calcutta in 1933, Ronnie Ross returned to Britain with his Scottish parents at the age of nine and...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012

Paul Dunmall, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brian Irvine Ensemble: Montana Strange

RTE National Symphony Orchestra | Robert Ziegler | BC Concert Orchestra | Colman Pearce | Brian Irvine | Paul Dunmall

This duo of Paul Dunmall and American drummer Tony Bianco recalls immediately Trane's work with Elvin Jones and later Rashied...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012