The Esmond Selwyn Hammond Organ Trio: The Middle Half

Esmond Selwyn | Robin Jones | John-Paul Gard

This is a charming album from one of the UK's leading guitar players and instructors. Esmond Selwyn trained with Chuck...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Etta James: The Dreamer

Terminally ill at the time of writing, the R&B vocal legend's final album sees her bow out gracefully with old...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Albert Ayler: Love Cry/The Last Album

Donald Ayler | Alan Silva | Muhammad Ali | Bill Folwell | Henry Vestine | Call Cobbs | Bobby Few | Albert Ayler | Mary Maria | Stafford James

This reissue of two of Albert Ayler's later period albums for Impulse! crams together on one disc his most inspired...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2012

JJ Wheeler Quintet: Unconventional

Tom Moore | JJ Wheeler | Chris Maddock | Ralph Brown | Charlie Portas

If a debut album is a statement of intent, you need to be very careful what you call it. Sadly,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2012

Jonathan Gee Trio: Dragonfly

Nasheet Waits | Jonathan Gee | Joseph Lepore

Working in New York can bring out hidden depths in visiting musicians. London pianist Jonathan Gee rightly feels proud of...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Emergence

Lucy Kerr | Andrew Robb | Ed Marr | Michael Owers | Richard Foote | Sean Gibbs | Joe Wright | Ruaridah Pattison | John Lowries | Alan Benzie

It has been said before, it will be said again: jazz north of the border is thriving. That's thanks in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

Sonny Criss: The Joy of Sax/Warm and Sonny

Sonny Criss

Dating back to the mid-1970s, these two unashamedly commercial albums are firmly – or silkily to be more precise –...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Gary Crosby: Belts The Blues And The Happy Batchelor

Not the UK bassist, but Bing's eldest son, who sadly can't sing well enough to justify Marty Paich's brilliant backing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

The Remote Viewers: Nerve Cure

Adrian Northover | Caroline Kraabel | Sue Lynch | John Edwards | David Petts | Adam Bohman | Rosa Lynch-Northover

The Remote Viewers originally arose out of London's improv scene as a sax trio in 1997. Fifteen years and 10...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2012

Dan Blake: The Aquarian Suite

This highly-rated young Danilo Perez/Anthony Braxton-recording saxophonistcomposer's quartet gets plenty of mileage out of an avant-bop vocabulary....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012