Kip Hanrahan: At Home In Anger, Which Could Also Be Called Imperfect, Happily

John Beasley | Fernando Saunders | Anthony Cox | Craig Handy | Kip Hanrahan | Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez | John Kilgore | Milton Cardona | Mike Cain | Xiomara Laugart

True to form, Hanrahan, the Cecil B. DeMille of jazz, unveils another glittering cast and a collection of audio scenes...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2012

Hank Jones: Complete Original Trio Recordings

Actually Jones’ complete 1950s trio work (there was more later) the bulk of tracks are by a fine group with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Various artists: Jazz At The Flamingo 10th Anniversary Tribute

Stan Roderick | Tubby Hayes | Arthur Watts | Eddie Thompson | Benny Green | Harry Klein | Les Condon | Andy White | Geogre Chisholm | Jimmy Deuchar

In another life, one of this reviewer's many occupations was that of resident compère at Jeff Kruger's Jazz at the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012

Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project

Jimmy Owens | Howard Johnson | Wycliffe Gordon | Kenny Davis | Winard Harper | Marcus Strickland | Kenny Barron

How many published Monk compositions are there? Maybe around 70? Seems as though there are more than that number of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012

Dom Franks StrayHorn: Native Tongues EP

Cheltenham-based saxophonist-composer's quartet plays a groove-based, good natured post-bop set....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Duke Ellington: Piano In The Background

Essential 1960 album by the full Ellington band, which, despite the title, puts Ellington's playing firmly in the spotlight, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Art Pepper: Live In Japan Ophelia/The Summer Knows

Art Pepper | Brad Bilhorn | Jmmie Smith | Jm Nichols | Fred Atwood | Tommy Gumina | Smith Dobson

Pulled from Art's archives, these location tapes may have been around the block a couple of times (as four separate...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2012

Michael Wollny's [em]: Wasted & Wanted

Eric Schaefer | Eva Kruse | Michael Wollny

It's no longer [em], but Michael Wollny's [em] (pictured, below, left), but don't read anything into that. “A lot of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2012

Herb Ellis/Joe Pass: Two For The Road

Two fine guitarists in 1970, duetting neatly, but without much passion, save for a breakneck ‘Cherokee’, and with a miserly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

David ‘Fathead’ Newman: The Soulful Mr. Newman

Kenny Washington | David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Steve Nelson | John Menegon | Jimmy Cobb | Buster Williams | Curtis Fuller | Benny Powell | Steve Kroon | John Hicks

David Newman died just a month after the final album (The Blessing) included in this compilation of his decade of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012