Tina Brooks: True Blue

Freddie Hubbard | Sam Jones | Art Taylor | Duke Jordan | Tina Brooks

Tina Brooks was the most enigmatic of all the Blue Note recording artists. This album, the only one issued under...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2022

Brigitte Beraha: By the Cobbled Path

Brigitte Beraha

No-one would be quicker to acknowledge the horrors of the pandemic than Brigitte Beraha. But she's also made the most...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra: The Hits Collection – 1935-58

Cliff Weston | Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake seven | the Pied Pipers | Allan Storr | Allan DeWitt | The Sentimentalists | Buddy Gately | Sy Oliver | Edythe Wright | Skeets Herfurt

It’s best first to consider the subtext here. As the strapline has it, these are the Dorsey band’s hits, running...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Kevin Brady Electric Quartet: Plan B

Dave Redmond | Bill Carrothers | Kevin Brady | Seamus Blake

It was Larry Coryell, the 1970s fusion star and enduring guitar-jazz favourite – on an Irish studio session that turned...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2022

Dave Meder: Unamuno Songs & Stories

The 31-year-old pianist-composer Meder draws on a broad range of influences from classical, ragtime, modernism from Monk to Shearing through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Jessica Pavone: Lull

Avant-jazz violinist Pavone’s (Mary Halvorson, Anthony Braxton) aleatoric Lull is a piece (written also for string octet) based on single...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

The Elton Dean Quartet – EDQ: They All Be On This Old Road

Chris Laurence | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Elton Dean | Keith Tippett

A gem from a bygone era, this digitally-remastered classic of a rare collector’s item – the LP Ogun 410, originally...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2022

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Johan Lindvall: Om Du Reser Mycket

Matilda Rolfsson | Mette Rasmussen | Marianne Baudouin Lie | Kyrre Laastad | Musina Sagstuen | Klaus Ellerhusen Holm | Lars Ove Fossheim | Natali Abrahamsen Garner | Johan Lindvall | Christian Skår Winther

The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra has been a fertile breeding ground in establishing Norwegian jazz’s unique identity since the 1990s, with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Torben Bjørnskov: Human Being Human

The influence of EST and Avishai Cohen on contemporary piano trios can’t be underestimated and this Danish acoustic trinity led...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Evan Parker: Winns Win

Evan Parker

Recorded at the house in Walthamstow where Victorian designer and socialist activist William Morris once lived and worked – and...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2022