Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry

Liberty Ellman | Eliot Humberto Kavee | Stomu Takeishi | Christopher Hoffman | Jose Davila | Henry Threadgill

Given the gulf that exists between the populist and the esoteric in music today, any artist with a sufficiently strong...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012

Charlie Parker: Plays Cole Porter

Bird's final recording for Verve, released after his death in 1955, was one of Norman Granz's first ‘songbook’ projects, augmented...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Daniel Herskedal/Marius Neset: Neck of the Woods

Svanholm Singers | Daniel Herskedal | Marius Neset

While the jazz world awaits Marius Neset's imminent follow up to last year's highly-rated Golden Xplosion, here's a little appetiser...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Album Interview: Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B

Van Morrison | Paul Moore | Paul Moran | Dave Keary | Alistair White | Christopher White | Jeff Lardner

Van Morrison has jazz in his blood, only a fool would think otherwise, and Born to Sing is the latest...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start

Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Brad Mehldau

As the Keith Jarrett of his generation, the acme of jazz piano for Generation X-ers just as the savant from...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Kevin Coelho: Funkengruven

This 16-year-old Californian Hammond organist makes an early start in a regular B3 trio set of originals and funk, soul...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Vincent Bourgeyx: Hip

A Bordeaux, New York-based piano trio featuring drummer Andre Ceccarelli play a nicely-paced, often softly swinging, postbop set of standards...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Freddie Hubbard: High Energy

Lew Soloff | Maurice Green | Spider Webb | Freddie Hubbard | Hubert Laws | Bob James | Carl Burnett | Al Hall | Steve Gadd | Ralph McDonald

Freddie fusion is frankly a difficult proposition for a lot of jazz fans, and this three-album-on-two CD-set may make the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012

Ivo Neame: Yatra

Jasper Hoiby | Dave Hamblett | Jason Yarde | Shabaka Hutchings | Jim Hart | Tori Freestone | Ivo Neame | Jon Shenoy

Recorded in Neasden rather than in an ashram, with the roar of the North Circular road only a sharp intake...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Brew Moore: West Coast Brew

A musicians' musician, Moore was a fine Lester Young-inspired tenorist, in absolutely top form on these late-1950s recordings, particularly on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012