Album Interview: Dr John: Locked Down

Max Weissenfeldt | Brian Olive | McCrary Sisters | Leon Michels | Dan Auerbach | Nick Movshon | Dr John aka ‘Mac’ Rebennack

Every generation since the 1960s has discovered Dr John and taken him to their heart. It's led to some wacky...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2012

Friends & Neighbours: No Beat Policy

Possibly titled after an Ornette album from 1970, this pretty impressive upcoming Norwegian quintet sounds closer to the late-1950s version....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods

George Barrow | John LaPorta | Clem DeRosa | Charles Mingus | Rudy Nichols | Teo Macero | Jackson Wiley | Thad Jones

The music on this disc emerged from the final sessions at which Mingus largely used conventionally notated music before moving...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Oltremare Quartet: Uncommon Nonsense

Michael Chillingworth | Andrea Di Biase | Jon Scott | Antonio Zambrini

This Italo-British quartet aims to bridge the divide between the rhythmic and harmonic sensibilities of British jazz giants such as...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Various Artists: History of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues: Jazz Blues + Creole Roots Vol 1

This collection is so rootsy it barely gets to rhythm and blues, remaining grounded in New Orleans jazz musicians of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come

Miles Davis | Mobley | Gil Evans | Chambers | Kelly

Early-1961 was a fertile time for Miles on record, as it now is for publicdomain reissues. Someday is a studio...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

Krystle Warren & the Faculty: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace

Solomon Dorsey | Michael Riddleberger | Krystle Warren | Ben Cassorla

Following an intensely creative 13-day recording session in February 2011 that yielded a whopping 25 songs – all live, no...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The One and Only Queen of Hot Gospel

A generous anthology of the swinging sister's work, solo, with Sam Price and with the Lucky Millinder big band, mixing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2012

World Saxophone Quartet: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint/Soul Note

Julius Hemphill | David Murray | Hamiet Bluiett | Oliver Lake

Horns are fêted in jazz for what they can do when playing on top of a rhythm section, but it...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Rez Abbasi's Invocation: Suno Suno

Dan Weiss | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Rez Abbasi | Johannes Weidenmueller | Vijay Iyer

Abbasi's recordings grow yet richer, and with Suno Suno (Urdu for “listen, listen”), his second release with his Invocation band,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2012