David Linx/Maria João/Brussels Jazz Orchestra: A Different Porgy & Another Bess

Maria João | Brussels Jazz Orchestra | David Linx

David Linx and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra follow up their acclaimed 2007 collaboration Changing Faces with an even more ambitious...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2012

Various Artists: Ska: 40 Jamaican Rude Boy Classics

An excellent cross section of Ska from 1963-6 with many more than the usual suspects but not forgetting Don Drummond...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Fapy Lafertin: The Le Jazz Recordings 1994-96

Manouche guitarist Fapy Lafertin, an uncanny exponent of Django's style, has recently been touring the UK, but this 2-CD set...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy sings Carmichael

Not the 1920s discs with Bix, but an all star 1950s band directed by Johnny Mandel with Sweets Edison and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Mel Tormé: Sings Shubert Alley/Back In Town

Stu Williamson | Marty Paich | Vince DeRosa | Red Callender | Barney Kessel | Victor Feldman | Tommy Tedesco | Bobby Gibbons | Art Pepper | Bill Hood

Mel Tormé was good… damn good and he knew it… knew it to the point where, later in his career,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2012

The Skatalites: Walk with Me

Although the originals have now gone, these ska pioneers live on with a first recording for five years, most tracks...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Jerry Granelli Trio: Let Go

Moss Freed | Chris Williams | Ruth Goller | Finlay Panter

It's been a long time coming but the veteran beat scene drummer finally takes the plunge with a debut experimenting...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Fredrik Kronkvist: New York Elements

Fredrik Kronkvist | Aaron Goldberg | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers

The fruity-toned Swedish alto saxophonist's first New York recording is part celebration of the Big Apple's bustling multi-ethnic energy and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2012

Rosemary Clooney: The Buddy Cole and Nelson Riddle Sessions

From the mid-1950s and early-60s, either side of her acclaimed Ellington LP, this is definitely Clooney in jazzland, specially with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Garzone/Tiberi Quintet: Audacity

A renowned educator (Mark Turner and Joshua Redman were among his pupils) George Garzone blows hot and cool on post-Coltrane...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012