Geoffrey Oryema: Exile

Richard Evans | Brian Eno | David Rhodes | David Bottrill | Geoffrey Oryema | Peter Gabriel | Richard Blair | Michelle Newbury

With African music so much a part of the mainstream it's easy to forget how pivotal the Real World label...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2012

Bing Crosby: The Jazz Sides

Pooling original Verve and RCA sessions with Buddy Bregman and Rosemary Clooney this exactly clones a Fresh Sound release reviewed...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Aldo Romano: Inner Smile

Thomas Bramerie | Baptiste Trotignon | Enrio Rava | Aldo Romano

Aldo Romano is a no-frills Italian-born, French-based drummer who's been a lynchpin in bands such as those of Henri Texier...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Various Artists: Jazzmen Detroit

A welcome reappearance for this session from 1956 with the Detroit stars who had just arrived in New York, Pepper...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

The Clarinet Trio: 4

Led by renowned German bass clarinettist/composer Gebhard Ullmann, The Clarinet Trio work in influences from Mingus and Steve Reich to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

MMM Quartet: Live at the Metz Arsenal

Double bassist Joëlle Léandre and guitarist Fred Frith feature in this freely abstract improv group in which gestural ensemble interaction...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Phil Miller | Brian Eno | Bill MacCormick | Mutter Korus | Robert Wyatt | Dave Sinclair | Dave MacRae | Dave Macrae

Matching Mole are usually seen as a transitionary stage in the career of Robert Wyatt. The group formed in 1971,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2012

Duke Ellington/Count Basie: Battle Royal

The great summit meeting, originally on Columbia, has lost nothing with age and is here supplemented by separate examples of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Nate Radley: The Big Eyes

The Brooklyn guitarist's debut, featuring regular collaborator Loren Stillman, is a gently engaging mix of tender rock-based Americana and contemporary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Evans Bradshaw/Roosevelt Wardell: Look Out/Pieces of Eighty Eight/The Revelation

A curiosity exhumed from the Riverside catalogue by two otherwise relatively unknown pianists, who sit somewhere between Bud Powell and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012