Paul Dunmall, Tony Bianco: Thank You To John Coltrane

Tony Bianco | 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

Arturo Sandoval: Dear Dizzy (Everyday I Think Of You)

Dan Higgins | Craig Gosnell | Steve Holtman | Gary Burton | Brian Nova | Manolo Gimenez | Carlitos Del Puerto | Arturo Sandoval | Freddie Greene | Andy Martin

Having outlived most of his trumpet-playing contemporaries, Dizzy chose to spend his sunset years embracing young bloods like Jon Faddis...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012

Ahmad Jamal: The Quintessence

The packaging of this distillation of Jamal's first (and now out-of-copyright) decade of recordings mentions an alleged influence on Bill...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015

Cynthia Felton: Freedom Jazz Dance

Cyrus Chestnut | Cynthia Felton | Terri Lyne Carrington | Ernie Watts | Wallace Roney

From the opening spiritual, ‘Oh Freedom’, Cynthia Felton's four-octave voice sweeps you up in its virtuosic embrace. On this, her...

Reviewed by Peter Quin in issue: October/2012

Jamie Reynolds Trio: Time with People

This month's Short Cuts invasion by Canadians continues with a young Fred Hersch-mentored pianist, who's now transferred to New York,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Duke Ellington: My People (The Complete Show)

A cassette in Mercer Ellington's files has allowed the reconstruction of Duke's 1963 stage show in the most complete version...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Bobby Timmons Trio: This Here Is Bobby Timmons/Easy Does It

Peter Littman | Jimmy Bond | Jimmy Cobb | Sam Jones | Bobby Timmons

Dr John was a self-confessed fan of Bobby Timmons who never got around to meeting BT or so he thought....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012

Jacob Karlzon 3: More

Don Pullen | Eddie Gomez | Giuseppi Logan | Reggie Johnson | Milford Graves

ACT is a glorious label and Jacob Karlzon is an undoubtedly impressive musician. But though it would be cheap to...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: September/2014

Elton Dean's Ninesense: The 100 Club Concert 1979

Harry Beckett | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Alan Skidmore | Harry Miller | Nick Evans | Keith Tippett | Elton Dean | Jim Dvorak | Marc Charig | Radu Malfatti

The debt owed by British jazz to the Blue Notes/Brotherhood of Breath is immediately apparent here. All but Tippett and...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012

Joe Alterman: Give Me The Simple Life

Houston Person | Joe Alterman | James Cammack | Herlin Riley

Sleevenote-wise, everybody is saying nice things about pianist Joe Alterman, particularly soul-tenor icon Houston Person, who guests on several tracks,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012