Adam Cruz: Milestone

Miguel Zenón | Adam Cruz | Steve Cardenas | Steve Wilson | Chris Potter | Ben Street | Edward Simon

You should be familiar with the name of Adam Cruz through any one of his sideman gigs with people like...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2012

Milt Jackson/Wes Montgomery: Bags Meets Wes!

Wynton Kelly | Walter Perkins | Wes Montgomery | Amando Peraza | George Shearing | Milt Jackson | Richard Chimelis | Monk Montgomery | Sam Jones | Buddy Montgomery

Even after Wes Montgomery cut himself free of his brothers Buddy and Monk to carve out a solo career, he...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2012

Al Smith/Mildred Anderson with Eddie Lockjaw Davis: Hear my Blues/Person to Person

The Lockjaw Davis band with organist Shirley Scott is the ideal backing for these two blues-orientated singers on two classic...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Ignasi Terraza Trio: Live at the Listening Room, Bangkok

Ignasi Terraza | Esteve Pi | Pierre Boussaguet

Terraza is a Catalan and something of a jazz luminary in his home town of Barcelona with a number of...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2012

Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society: Father Of Origin

Ralph Walsh | Julius Hemphill | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Rod Hicks | Earl Cross | Ali Abuwi | Juma Sultan | Frank Lowe | Gene Dinwiddie | Abdul Wadud

This astonishing audio/visual box set tells the hitherto undocumented story of bass player/percussionist Juma Sultan and his Aboriginal Music Society...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2012

Ullmann Dahlgren Thomas: Transatlantic Bassx3

Prolific bass clarinettist Gebhard Ullmann joins ‘prepared’ double basses for a set of finely nuanced drone-y textures and infl uences...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Gil Evans: Out Of The Cool

Jimmy Buffington | Harvey Philips | John Carisi | Gil Evans | Johnny Coles | Barry Galbraith | Charlie Persip | Eddie Costa | Helen Merrill | Jimmy Knepper

There appear to be two recent Universal reissues of OOTC, one with the five original tracks and one adding the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

Carsten Dahl Experience: Metamorphosis

Carsten Dahl | Stefan Pasborg | Jesper Zeuthen | Nils ‘Bosse’ Davidsen

This music shows the free and unbuttoned side of Dahl, quite different to his association with Arild Andersen and Patrice...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2012

Bill Evans Trio: Explorations

Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott Lafaro | Scott LaFaro

Following up the expanded publicdomain reissue of Portrait In Jazz on their Poll Winners label (see Jazzwise 151), EJC have...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

John Raymond: Strength & Song

Not long out of college, here's another impressive NY-based trumpeter-composer (and quintet) with a centered tone, fresh ideas and bluesy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012