Gary Husband: Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2

Wayne Krantz | Laurence Cottle | Allan Holdsworth | Mike Stern | Jan Hammer | Sean Freeman | Livingston Browne | Neil Taylor | Alex Machacek/programming | Jimmy Johnson

Dedicated to Richard Turner, the young trumpeter too soon taken from us, Dirty & Beautiful Vol. 2 finds Husband delivering...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2012

Earth: Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light

Adrienne Davies | Karl Blau | Dylan R. Carlson | Lori Goldston

Recorded during the same sessions that produced the epochal first volume, the sequel to last year's Angels Of Darkness, Demons...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2012

Cecil Taylor: The Complete Nat Hentoff Sessions

Sunny Murray | Archie Shepp | Dennis Charles | Cecil Taylor | Buell Neidlinger

This 4-disc collection gathers together the complete recordings that Cecil Taylor laid down for Candid, a subsidiary label to Archie...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2012

Cliff Edwards: The Charm of Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

The voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket belonged to Cliff Edwards, pioneer scat singer and ukulele strummer, whose jazzier work is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Alex Goodman Quintet: Bridges

Zack Lober | Jamie Baum | Brad Shepik | Chris Komer | John Escreet | Amir ElSaffar | Jeff Hirshfield | Navin Chettri | Sam Sadigurksy | Jamey Haddad

Young, suited and booted Canadian guitarled group looking to bring back slim ties, along with their mix of Bach, east...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Red Garland/Ray Bryant: Alone/Blues and Ballads

Two solo albums conjoined in this welcome reissue of work by these contrasting pianists from 1958-61....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Dafnis Prieto: Si O Si Quartet Live at Jazz Standard NYC

Peter Apfelbaum | Charles Flores | Manuel Valera | Dafnis Prieto

It's astonishing how few people in the UK are aware of the Cuban New York-based drummer-composerarranger-educator Dafnis Prieto. In America,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2012

Herb Geller and Charlie Mariano: Halle Opera House 2002

Burkhard Braune | Charlie Mariano | Herb Geller | Thomas Biller

Two altoists with histories similar in some respects and dissimilar in others, who had rarely crossed paths since the mid-1950s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

Hank Roberts: Everything Is Alive

Jerome Harris | Bill Frisell | Kenny Wollesen | Hank Roberts

Cellist Hank Roberts was an early Bill Frisell collaborator and he's been turning up in Frisell's projects again of late....

Reviewed by Robert Shor in issue: May/2012

Wynton Marsalis: The Music Of America

Joe Temperley | Rodney Whitaker | Wynton Marsalis | Wessell Anderson | Cassandra Wilson | Marcus Printup | Ben Wolfe | Ted Nash | Wycliffe Gordon | Ryan Kisor

Note absence of the word jazz in the title. One could argue that, although he is an embodiment of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012