Sheila Jordan: Comes Love: Lost 1960 Session

Sheila Jordan

Quite a find. Jordan, who will turn 92 this month, apparently has no recollections on making this 34-minute recording which,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2021

Alex Norris Quintet: Fleet From The Heat

The veteran straightahead NYC-based trumpeter Alex Norris has spent most of his career on the sidelines so this is only...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Skyline

Jack DeJohnette | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Ron Carter

It’s over 30 years since Rubalcaba emerged from Cuba to play at festivals in Montreal and Montreux, and eventually to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2021

Count Basie & His Orchestra: Afrique

Eric Dixon | Waymon Reed | Freddie Green | Hubert Laws | Oliver Nelson | Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis | Count Basie | George Cohn | John B Williams | Paul Cohen

Count Basie’s autobiography didn’t think Afrique worth mentioning, despite its bolt-from-the-blue Pharoah Sanders and Albert Ayler covers, under the baton...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2021

Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Village Mothership

Matthew Shipp | William Parker | Whit Dickey

This is the first studio album from the heavyweight NYC trio of Whit Dickey, William Parker and Matthew Shipp in...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Lionel Loueke: Close Your Eyes

Eric Harland | Reuben Rogers | Lionel Loueke

It’s hard to imagine more congenial jazz company than Loueke; his wit, warmth and easeful way of challenging and changing...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021

Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne: Aeolian

Matthew Bourne | Keith Tippett

Between 2017 and 2019, pianists Keith Tippett and Matthew Bourne performed a series of two-piano concerts, and this double-disc set...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Horace Tapscott conducting The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra: The Call

Just when the extensive and long overdue reissue programme of the music of Horace Tapscott looks set to have finished,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021

Kazemde George: I Insist

Adam Arruda | Sami Stevens | Isaac Wilson | Kazemde George | Tyron Allen II

Brooklyn-based now, George is a Caribbean American saxophonist from Berkeley, California, who says these 10 compositions reflect the ‘experiences, circumstances...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021

Nicholas Payton: Smoke Sessions

Nicholas Payton | Ron Carter | George Coleman | Karriem Liggins

The influence of Miles Davis’ second great quintet on Nicholas Payton’s music began when the trumpeter/composer was barely in his...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2021