Arun Ghosh: Seclused In Light

Arun Ghosh | Idris Rahman | Dave Walsh | Chris Williams | Aref Durvesh | Myke Wilson

Over the last 15 years or so clarinetist-composer Arun Ghosh has created a body of recorded work that has broached...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2022

Various Artists: Soho Scene ’58: Jazz Goes Mod

Art Blakey | Lou Donaldson | Ronnie Ross | Miles Davis | Cannonball Adderley | Eddie Thompson | Don Rendell | Bill Evans | Dizzy Reece | Vic Ash

Neil Duckett has been at this sort of thing for some time now. His multi-CDcompilations usually line up comparable UK...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022

Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-1970

Sonny Dallas | Warne Marsh | Jeff Morton | Lennie Tristano | Peter Ind | Lee Konitz | Billy Bauer | Tom Wayburn | Zoot Sims | Arnold Fishkin

This absorbing package, previously unreleased apart from 10 minutes out of the total 357, almost dwarves everything else that has...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2022

Bill Easley: Diversitonic

Kyle Koehler | John Hanks | Mark Wells | Robert Bradford | Bill Newton | Beverly Botsford | Bill Easley

Easley has had one of those distinguished sideman careers, working with George Benson, Mercer Ellington, Isaac Hayes, John Lewis’s American...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022

Monnette Sudler: In My Own Way

Kenny Kellen | Monnette Sudler | Newman T Baker | Oliver Collins | Mohamed Al-Jabry

Before Hedwig Mollestadt, Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn; before even Emily Remler, there was Philly-born Monnette Sudler, ploughing a rather...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022

Pete Malinverni: On The Town – Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

Jeff Hamilton | Ugonna Okegwo | Pete Malinverni

Malinverni is something of a veteran, not only as a New York-based mainstream jazz pianist, but also as composer and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2022

Johannes Berauer: Vienna Chamber Diaries Plus Strings

Gwilym Simcock | Yuri Goloubev | Christian Bakanic | Klaus Gesing | Wolfgang Muthspiel | Florian Eggner | Bernhard Schimpelsberger | Johannes Dickbauer

Austrian composer Johannes Berauer rightly considers himself an ambassador between classical and jazz musicians, between composed and improvised music', and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022

Samuel Mösching: Ethereal Kicks

This Chicago-based Swiss guitarist/multi-instrumentalist’s trio is nearly all him, playing a kind of fusion-lite that mixes country, mainstream singer-songwriter rock...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Total Music Association: Walpurgisnacht

Andreas Boje | Hans-Jörg Hussong | Wilfried Eichhorn | Rudi Theilmann | Erich Schröder | Willi Schneider | Matthias Boje | Helmut Zimmer

Total Music Association was an underground West German free-jazz collective active around the late 1960s/early 70s, with an ever-changing line-up....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022

Tubby Hayes: Hip! The Untold Story of Tubby Hayes 1965

Alfie Reece | Ronnie Stephenson | Derek Healey | Stan Tracey | Greg Bowen | Ronnie Ross | Ray Swinfield | Nat Peck | Johnny Marshall | Bob Burns

R&B Records has a habit of delving into the dark recesses of long-gone jazz radio and they’ve done it again...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022