Kid Ory: Song of the Wanderer/Dance with Ory

From the tail end of Ory's Verve contract in 1957, this is one of his most infectious sessions, with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Phil Miller In Cahoots: Mind Over Matter

Paul Booth | Phil Miller | Mark Armstrong | Peter Lemer | Mark Fletcher

Things may come and things may go but like the Art School Dance, Phil Miller goes on forever. In Cahoots...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2012

Randi Tytingvåg: Let Go

Moss Freed | Chris Williams | Ruth Goller | Finlay Panter

This faintly Regina Spector-ish Norwegian singer-songwriter mixes up charming old folk and cabaret combinations such as chanson and accordion-led tango....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Aki Takase: New Blues

Leading avant garde Japanese pianist with great band, including Rudi Mahall and Eugene Chadbourne, in another part-Fats Waller tribute that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Ramsey Lewis: Funky Serenity/Salongo

Tang | Morris Jennings | Ramsey Lewis | Steve Cobb | Jimmy Bryant | Derf Reklaw | Cleveland Eaton | Ed Green | Rion Harris | Bryon Gregory

Lewis’ early and mid-1970s work regularly cops the charge of style over substance, but some, especially those weaned on hip...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Andrew Linham Quartet: Abandoned Silence

Dan Paton | Rob Brockway | Andrew Linham | Darren McCarthy

Young Leeds College of Music graduate Andrew Linham has been notching up the prizes of late, not least bagging a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall

Caetano Veloso | Mauro Refosco | Jacques Morelenbaum | David Byrne

Recorded back in 2004 when Caetano Veloso curated a week-long series of concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall, the press...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012

Stan Kenton: Back To Balboa/Rendezvous with Kenton

Two classic live albums from the Rendezvous Ballroom in the late-1950s, both originally on Capitol, and containing some of Kenton's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Jerome Sabbagh: Plugged In

An ex-Paul Motian sideman, this NYCbased French saxophonist's band features excellent Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin in a rock-inspired but total...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Martin Speake/Colin Oxley: Two Not One

Colin Oxley | Martin Speake

Since the 1990s alto saxophonist Martin Speake has explored puretoned cool school aesthetics through to more bluesy Ornette-infl uenced settings....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012