The Duncan Fraser Big Band: Dealing in Wheeler

A tribute to Kenny Wheeler from a young ex-NYJO flugelhornist composing and arranging for Big Band, that performance-wise sounds a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio: Sources

Benjamin Moussay | Louis Sclavis | Gilles Coronado

This is French reedsman Louis Sclavis' ninth album for ECM, but his first with this particular set of collaborators. There's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2012

Yosvany Terry: Today's Opinion

Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Osmany Paredes | Yunior Terry | Yosvany Terry | Pedro Martinez | Michael Rodriguez | Obed Calvaire

Yosvany Terry is currently a member of the Eddie Palmieri band. Born in central Cuba, he studied at the prestigious...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2012

Ben Zabo

Yodé Nepehi Richard | Patricia Koïta | Kassim Keita | Ben Zabo | Chris Eckman | Soboua Dieudonné Koïta | Virginie Dembélé | Jean Diarra | Siméon Darra | Blaž Celarec

There is Afrobeat and Afrobeat. And then there is Afrobeat from Mali. The genre kickstarted by the late great Fela...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2012

Lester Young – Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison: Going For Myself

Harry Edison | Lester Young | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Louie Bellson | Ray Brown

This is Lester in extremis, his health shot, nearing the end of his career (and his life), gamely trying to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2012

Marbin: Breaking the Cycle

Leslie Beukelman | Dani Rabin | Daniel White | Danny Markovitch | Steve Rodby | Paul Wertico | Jamey Haddad | Makaya McCraven | Matt Davidson

Israeli-trained, Chicago-based pair Danny Markovitch and Dani Rabin – whose surnames elide and coalesce to form ‘Marbin’ – released their...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2012

Omer Avital: Suite of the East

Omer Klein | Avishai Cohen | Joel Frahm | Omer Avital | Daniel Freedman

The sessions that comprise Suite of the East date back to 2006, following this band's month-long residency at Small's in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2012

Mor Thiam: Dini Safarrar

John Evens | Lester Bowie | Zak Diouf | Philip Wesdmoread | James Mathis | Billy Ingram | Abdoulaye N'Gom | Mor Thiam | Rayman Eldridge | Oliver Lake

Senegalese drummer Mor Thiam arrived in the US in 1968, at the invitation of pioneering African American choreographer Katherine Dunham....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2012

Tony Crombie: Whole Lotta Tony

Malcolm Cecil | Bobby Wellins | Tony Crombie | Tommy Whittle | Harold McNair | Gordon Beck

This obscure chunk of British modernism was originally issued on vinyl by Ember, a label which specialised in artists who...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2012

Esther Phillips: Performance

The usual Creed Taylor package, fine vocal performances framed by a stellar orchestra on the verge of a taste bypass,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012