Daniel Freedman: Bamako By Bus

Avishai Cohen | Mauro Refosco | Abraham Rodriguez | Jason Lindner | Pedrito Martinez | Meshell Ndegeocello | Yosvany Terry | Mark Turner | Lionel Loueke | Omer Avital

Although those with sharp eyes will have clocked the drummer on stage with Angélique Kidjo of late, he was part...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2012

Shorty Rogers: Four Classic Albums

A first rate cross section of Rogers' big band and small group sides from 1953-58 with star collaborators including Art...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Mole: What Is The Meaning?

Luri Molina | Hernan Hecht | Mark Aanderud | David Gilmore

No, not a tribute band to Robert Wyatt and Matching Mole, this quartet is a whole Mole to themselves, although...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2012

Cindy Douglas: My New Jive

Dominic Howles | Jeff Lardner | Tim Richards | Cindy Douglas

Displaying impressively voracious musical tastes, this debut album from vocalist Cindy Douglas explores everything from bebop to swing to world...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2012

Matt Ulery: By a Little Light

A two-disc set by a Chicago-based chamber septet composer-bassist with some traits of the release label's owner Dave Douglas' work,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Buddy Rich: Three Classic Albums Plus The Wailing Buddy Rich/The Swinging Buddy Rich/This One's For Basie/Buddy & Sweets

Sonny Criss | Harry Edison | Milt Bernhart | Conrad Gozzo | Georgie Auld | Tom Brown | Frank Wess | Jimmy Rowles | Barney Kessel | Joe Comfort

If America's greatest World War II combat General, George S. Patton had played drums, he would have been Buddy Rich!...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2012

Illinois Jacquet: Five Classic Albums: The Kid and The Brute/Swing's The Thing/Illinois Flies Again/Illinois Jacquet Col

Arnette Sparrow | Hank Jones | Flip Ricard | Roy Eldridge | Barry Galbraith | Al Lucas | Jimmy Jones | Red Callender | Illinois Jacquet | Carl Perkins

To paraphrase Private Eye's Glenda Slagg – Illinois Jacquet… crazy name, crazy guy! Be that as it may, from the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2012

Pete Jolly: Duo and Trio

Often to be heard in Shorty Rogers' excellent bands, pianist Jolly did not lead the number of sessions that his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Ballrogg: Cabin Music

Roger Arntzen | Ivar Grydeland | Klaus Ellerhusen Holm

Ballrogg began life as a duo: somewhere between Paul Bley and Eric Dolphy, on the one hand, and Morton Feldman...

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

Third World Love: Songs and Portraits

But for one, this is an Israeli New Yorker jazz supergroup with a middle eastern-inflected folky post-bop sound that's light...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012