Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Spirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-76

Hank Jones | Hilton Ruiz | Ron Burton | Roland Kirk Spirit Choir | Joe Habao Texidor | Grady Tate | Vernon Martin | Steve Novosel | Lonnie Liston Smith | Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Compiled by our esteemed editor Jon Newey and Warner Music's Florence Halfon (she of the Leopard Lounge series), this is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2012

Joe Newman: Complete Swingville Sessions

Three LPs on a 2CD set of Newman's early-1960s quintet and quartet makes a great complement to his recently reissued...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Mike Stern: All Over The Place

Victor L Wooten | Jim Beard | Bob Malach | Bob Franceschini | Esperanza Spalding | Randy Brecker | Dave Holland | Mike Stern | Kenny Garrett | Tim Keiper

If you thought Big Neighbourhood, Stern's impressive run out from a couple of years ago tapped a diverse range of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012

Keith Jarrett: Sleeper — Tokyo, April 16, 1979

Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Keith Jarrett | Palle Danielsson

There's something very moving about this double album. It's not just that it has emerged after 33 years albeit with...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012

Neneh Cherry/The Thing: The Cherry Thing

Paal Nilssen-Love | Neneh Cherry | Mats Gustafsson | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

To those who know her only from 1988's ‘Buffalo Stance’ or 1994's ‘7 Seconds’, her duet with Senegal's Youssou N'dour,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dai in issue: August/2012

Leo Gandelman: VIP VOP

London's hippest specialist Brazilian label likes to dig up hidden treasures and here's a saxophonist, better known in Brazil for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

WorldService Project/Alfie Ryner: Match & Fuse

Guillaume Pique | Dave Morecroft | Derek Whyte | Colm O'Hara | Neil Blandford | Loris Pertoldi | Paco Serrano | Matt Jacobson | Tim Ower | Gerald Gimenez

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

Tingvall Trio: Vägen

Omar Rodriguez Calvo | Adam Zolynski | Axel Ruhland | Jansen Folkers | Jürgen Spiegel | Martin Bentz | Gregor Lentjes | Martin Tingvall

Like meeting a friend you haven't seen in years, but manage to pick up a conversation with immediately as if...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: August/2012

Ben Powell: New Street

Julian Lage | Gary Burton | Devin Drobka | Aaron Darrell | Tadataka Unno | Powell

No violinist could fully recapture the exultant genius that was Stéphane Grappelli, but tonally at least, Ben Powell comes darn...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: August/2012

Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers

Tom Peters | Jan Karlin | Anthony Davis | Pheeroan akLaff | Lorenz Gamma | John Lindberg | Peter Jacobson | Jeff Von Der Schmidt | Shalini Vijayan | Wadada Leo Smith

It might seem glib to say that a serious subject such as the Civil Rights movement, or more precisely its...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2012