Jimmy Giuffre: Dragonfly/Quasar/Liquid Dancers/Conversations with a Goose

Pete Levin | Jimmy Giuffre | Randy Kaye | Paul Bley | Bob Nieske | Steve Swallow

The radical but cool-toned multireedist Jimmy Giuffre was never one to make an obvious gesture. After making waves with his...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Don Pullen: Capricorn Rising/Healing Force/Warriors/Milano Strut/The Magic Triangle/Evidence Of Things Unseen/The Sixth

Don Pullen

Life isn't fair. Nearly 20 years after his death, pianist Don Pullen may be hymned by those in the know...

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

Karolina Strassmayer/Drori Mondlak's Klaro!: Joining Forces

She's an Austrian WDR band saxophonist; he, an experienced New York-based drummer, together they cross an early Coltrane-ish post-bop with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Beats & Pieces Big Band: Big Ideas

Paul Strachan | Ben Watte | Harrison Wood | Sam Healey | Anthony Brown | Tim Cox | Mick Walters | Tullis Rennie | Anton Hunter | Simon Lodge

Updating the big band sound is not a new idea. In the UK alone, in recent years, we've had The...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2012

Kid Ory: Live at the Club Hangover

Four radio broadcasts by Ory's regular working band of 1954, with Don Ewell on piano and Alvin Alcorn trumpet, two...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Modern Jazz Quartet: Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a climate where everything from “Ghost” orchestras (Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Sun Ra...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Nick Sorensen and John Law: The Journey Home

John Law | Nick Sorensen

Nick Sorensen and John Law have been performing together as a duo (and in larger groups) since 2006, and their...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Abbey Lincoln: Straightahead

Walt Benton | Eric Dolphy | Booker Little | Julian Priester | Max Roach | Peck Morrison | Kenny Dorham | Stanley Turrentine | Robert Whitley | Art Davis

This is one of the great political and cultural statements made by African-Americans during the civil rights era. Apart from...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Marc Rossi Group: Mantra Revealed

Indo-Jazz fusion with pianist Rossi's mix of Carnatic classical, jazz-rock while dipping into elements of latin and Brazilian music....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Trio M: The Guest House

Mark Dresser | Matt Wilson | Myra Melford

Away from the collectivist-utopian impulses of free-jazz and improv, generally speaking, even the most egalitarian of jazz piano trios tend...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2012