Anne Mette Iverson: Poetry of Earth

A Danish bassist sets poetry (in both Danish and English) from Ibsen to Keats to an interesting set of chamber...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Aruán Ortiz Quartet: Orbiting

Eric McPherson | David Gilmore | Rashaan Carter | Aruán Ortiz

With most jazz writers, every once in a blue moon, you get a gut feeling about a newcomer to the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2012

Szilard Mezei: 100 tu Hossza

A Serbian-Hungarian viola player interested in intersections between improvisation, aleatoric and composition leads an avant art music ensemble guided by...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Cabal

Euan Palmer | Sam Wooster | Nick Jurd

Note: this CD is not for sale. Facing up to the new realities of freely available online music, this young...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country/If You Go

The first of these is Lee's big band masterpiece, with dazzling arrangements by Quincy Jones, making it essential, plus the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Quincy Jones: Around the World/I Dig Dancers

Two overtly commercial big band sessions by the band that survived the collapse of Harold Arlen's Free As Air show,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Art of Dreaming

The Guadeloupe-born saxophonist seemed to disappear after 2007's very promising Soné Ka-La but a new quartet CD, though mellower, still...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Various Artists: British Traditional Jazz: A Potted History 1936-1963

Sandy Brown | Nat Gonella | Freddy Randall | Chris Barber | Christie Brothers | Ken Colyer | Harry Gold

Lake's 3-CD compilation is neatly packaged and rewardingly comprehensive, always assuming that prolonged exposure to UK traditional jazz is your...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2012

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis

A great Verve album reissued here with half the sequel too, making it better value than the still-in-catalogue Verve release...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Daryl Sherman: Mississippi Belle: Cole Porter in the Quarter

Jesse Boyd | Tom Fischer | Banu Gibson | Daryl Sherman

American singer Sherman, who was touring here in July, has done herself proud with this latest release. Ostensibly, it's all...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2012