Hank Crawford: Don't You Worry About A Thing

Creed Taylor's fussy production blunts Crawford's funky effectiveness as a soloist, and 35 minute playing time is miserly....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Chuck Mangione: Journey To A Rainbow and Eyes Of The Veiled Temptress

Two classic 1980s albums originally on CBS from the flugelhornist at his most fusionish....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Ravi Shankar: Nine Decades: Vol. III Orchestral Experimentations

AKC Natarajan | Ravi Shankar | Ramnad Easwran | Chatur Lal

This gathering of nine fascinating works recorded between 1949 and 1954 while Shankar was music director at the All India...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2012

Tim Collins: Castles and Hilltops

Danny Grissett | Matt Clohesy | Tim Collins | Tommy Crane

Moving to New York City from his home town of Plattsburgh NY in 2000, Collins has had a busy past...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2012

Grateful Dead: Europe '72 Vol. 2

Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan | Bob Weir | Phil Lesh | Keith Godchaux | Jerry Garcia | Bill Kreutzmann | Donna Jean Godchaux

2011 saw an outpouring on a colossal scale by way of a 70-hour, 72-CD boxed-set of live recordings from the...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2012

Album Interview: Nikki Iles: Hush

Nikki Iles | Rufus Reid | Jeff Williams

This is a lovely disc from a perennially underrated – though far from unknown – British pianist. Here Nikki Iles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

Bill Holman: The Fabulous Bill Holman

Eight big band tracks, but the great thing here is ten bonus small band sides from Kenton Presents… a truly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

James Carter Organ Trio: At The Crossroads

Vincent Chandler | Bruce Edwards | Miche Braden | Kenyon Harrold | Brandon Ross | Carter | Eli Fountain | Gerard Gibbs | Leonard King

A mainstream-cummodern master of all the saxophones from contrabass to sopranino, James Carter's star is rising. He recently took first...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Various Artists: The Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection

Rex Stewart | Hank Jones | Benny Morton | Ray Bryant | Oliver Jackson | Herman Autrey | Hilton Jefferson | Wells | Billy Strayhorn | Harold ‘Shorty’ Baker

Sir Edward Lewis, then head of UK Decca, gave the UK-born writer/producer Stanley Dance carte-blanche in the late 1950s to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2012

Jeff Lorber Fusion: Galaxy

This pianist-keyboardist is a father figure of smooth jazz and gave Kenny G his first break but try not to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012