Mel Tormé: The Chart Years Singles 1949-62

Al Pellegrini | Mel Lewis | Red Mitchell | Neal Hefti | Margaret Whiting | Sonny Burke | Pete Rugulo | Peggy Lee | George Cates | Mel Tormé

As its name suggests, by focusing on the single releases, this shows the more commercial end of Tormé’s output, for...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022

Petter Eldh’s Koma Saxo: Koma West

Sofia Jernberg | Kit Downes | Lucy Railton | Christian Lillinger | Kiki Eldh | Petter Eldh | Jonas Kullhammar | Maria Reich | Otis Sandsjö | Mikko Innanen

The Swedish Berlin-based Petter Eldh is as inventive as he is prolific. He’s a genre-busting adventurer, more known as a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Burns/Wojciechowski/Bradfield: Tenor Time

John Wojciechowski | Clark Sommers | Richard D Johnson | Geof Bradfield | Scott Burns | Greg Arty

These tenor-saxophonists hail from Chicago, as does their label. Each is new to me as are their rhythmic companions. With...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022

Ana Carla Maza: Bahía

Ana Carla Maza

Ana Carla Maza is a twenty-something singer and cellist blessed with charisma, talent and a neat backstory: she is the...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2022

Cong Fusion: The World as We Know It

Alan Shorty | Ryan McCafferey | Flo Moor | Joe Malone | Tom Ridout | Andrew Seeman | Rowan Porteous

If you’ve heard Flo Moor sneaking round the complexities of an Allan Holdsworth song in an easesome style, or replicating...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2022

Alexander Flood: The Space Between

Josh Chenoweth | Ben Kepron | Nelson Dialect | aTunde Adjuah | Tyler Venter | Wei-Han Dai | Dylan Paul | Brion ‘Boogie BeeJay’ Scott | Zayn Mohammed | Alexander Flood

Alexander Flood is a much-lauded young Australian drummer and producer, whose debut album was released under the patronage of no...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2022

Calvin Keys: Proceed With Caution

Big Black | Calvin Keys | Rudolph Johnson | Kirk Lightsey | Thurman Green | Kent Brinkley | Shakur M. Abdullah | Water Bishop Jnr | Gerald Brown | Owen Marshall

Hip-hop producer Ali Shaheed-Muhammad would surely be among the first to place an order for this latest batch of Black...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2022

Binker & Moses: Feeding the Machine

Max Luthert | Moses Boyd | Binker Golding

Binker and Moses arrived with a bang plus an attitude that had more in common with West Coast Get Down...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Tubby Hayes: The Complete Hopbine ‘69

Tubby Hayes | Spike Wells | Mick Pyne | Ron Matthewson

Wherever I was on Tuesday, 23 December 1969, I was in the wrong place. I should have been at the...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: March/2022

Cooper-Moore & Stephen Gauci: Conversations Vol.2

Another collaboration between pianist Cooper-Moore and tenor saxophonist Gauci finds them on inventive and typically astringent form on seven varied...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022