Les McCann: The Shout

One studio and one live session from 1960 by one of the most gospelly pianists in jazz, on which the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Chick Corea New Trio: Past, Present and Future

The 2001 “New” trio with Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard is not so new any more, but a welcome reissue...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Johannes Enders: Trio Mondvogel

An intimate-toned, post-cool school German saxophonist with good ideas in a trio with bassist Ed Howard and drummer Sebastian Merk....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Sarah Vaughan/Count Basie Orchestra: Send in the Clowns

This 1981 collaboration finds Vaughan in fine if slightly muffled form, and like her 1960s Roulette collaboration, backed by the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Phineas Newborn Jr: A World of Piano!

Too flashy? Not grounded enough? This striking display from Newborn on top pianistic form in 1961 should dispel the doubters....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Jim Black Trio: Somatic

Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan

One of the most imaginative drummers in New York, Seattle’s Jim Black has worked with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas...

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

Classic Jazz Orchestra/Alan Barnes: The Glasgow Suite

Billy Hunter | Roy Percy | Konrad Wiszniewski | Dick Lee | Alan Barnes | Martin Foster | Phil O'Malley | Paul Harrison | Ken Mathieson

Benny Carter wrote the five-part The Glasgow Suite for, well, Glasgow, or at least that city’s International Jazz Festival in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2012

Bevan/Bourne/Buck/Phillips: Everybody Else But Me

Tony Bevan | Matthew Bourne | Barre Phillips | Tony Buck

The motley crew (not Crüe) responsible for this disc stretch from Bourne, the English pianist and composer born in 1977,...

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

Michael Garrick: With The Rendell/Carr Quintet

Michael Garrick | Don Rendell | Trevor Tomkins | Dave Green | Ian Carr

It's only after the event that the Rendell/Carr quintet rightly became recognised as one of the UK's most creative groups...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Randy Brecker with the DR Big Band: The Jazz Ballad Song Book

Randy Brecker | Michael Bojesen | DR Big Band

Jazz balladry may summon stereotype of smoky romance, but Brecker, ever the tough cookie, re-brands the ‘ballad’ in some very...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2012