Red Nichols: Complete Brunswick Recordings Vols 4-6

‘What Wall Street crash?’ you may wonder, as Nichols’ prolific recording career romps unabated through 1929 and 1930 as the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

James (Maloney) Joy: Jimmie's Joys

Twenty-six tracks by this Texan collegecum-Territory band show the progress of Jimmie Moloney to moderately wellknown bandleader Jimmy Joy prior...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Cassandra Wilson: Another Country

Lekan Bablola | Cassandra Wilson | Mino Cinelu | Fabrizio Sotti | Nicola Sorato | Julien Labro

This, remarkably, is album number 18 from the Jackson, Mississippi vocalist. And despite having paved the way for a whole...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2012

Eddie Prévost, Evan Parker, John Edwards: Meetings With Remarkable Saxophonists Volume 1

John Edwards | Eddie Prévost | Evan Parker

Its title is a nod towards Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff. Back in the early days of AMM, Eddie Prévost and...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: August/2012

Boi Akih: Circles in a Square Society

Monica Akihary and guitarist Niels Brouwer's sensuously cool contemporary take on hippy rock (Hendrix, Crosby, Mitchell) with jazz and African...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Tom Harrell: Number Five

Ugonna Okegwo | Danny Grissett | Jonathan Blake | Wayne Escoffery | Tom Harrell

Trumpeter Tom Harrell's long and highly respected career is marked by sound musical craftsmanship often enlivened by lyrical grace, all...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

Melissa James: Day Dawns

Larry Bartley | Tony Kofl | Mark Fletcher | Melissa James | Nick Ramm | Damon Brown

This magnificent debut album from singer-songwriter Melissa James announces not just the arrival of a remarkable new voice, but a...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2012

WorldService Project: Live from London

Kurt Andre Aase | Ellen Andrea Wang | Dave Morecroft | Neil Blandford | Ole Adland | Tim Ower | Kristian Harnes | Erik Nerheim | Conor Chaplin | Ralph Clarkson

Led by keyboardist Dave Morecroft, London-based quintet WorldService Project are engaged in an ambitious quest to connect with like-minded fellow...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

Studio Tan

A guilty pleasure for a Scandinavian band featuring Lars Danielsson (with guests among them Nils Landgren and Marius Neset) who...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Monica Zetterlund: Don't Dream of Anybody But Me

The Swedish jazz singer in a collection of hitherto hard-to-find EPs from the end of the 1950s that prove her...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012