Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2: See The Birds

Michael Mayo | Joel Ross | Jaleel Shaw | Kokayi | Regina Carter | Fima Ephron | Nate Smith | Brittany Howard | Stokley Amma Whatt | Vernon Reid

Smith is one of several notable Americans who straddle the world of jazz, soul and electronica and have an avowed...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2021

Fabien Mary & The Vintage Orchestra: Too Short

Erick Poirier | Thomas Savy | Jean-Francois Devèze | Fabien Mary | Olivier Zanot | Jerry Edwards | David Sauzay | Yoni Zelnik | Julien Ecrepont | Michaël Ballue

French trumpeter-arranger Mary is best known as a small group leader but also plays regularly in the top Parisian big...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021

Tubby Hayes: Tubby The Tenor

Tubby Hayes | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Horace Parlan | George Duvivier | Eddie Costa

Reissued just in time to mark the 60th anniversary of Hayes’ ground-breaking New York debut (see cover feature this issue),...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2021

Album Interview: Brian Jackson–Ali Shaheed Muhammad–Adrian Younge: Jazz is Dead 8

Brian Jackson | Ali Muhammad | Adrian Younge | Malachi Morehad

The latest in the series launched by producer-multi-instrumentalists Muhammad and Younge brings keyboardist-flautist Brian Jackson into the spotlight. Although best...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2021

Ed Jones/Emil Karlsen: From Where Light Falls

Ed Jones | Emil Karlsen

There isn’t much saxophonist Ed Jones hasn’t done in terms of the broader spectrum of jazz, from acid jazz with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

Helen Humes: Three Classic Albums Plus

Stu Williamson | Frank Butler | Wynton Kelly | Joe Gordon | Mel Lewis | Shelly Manne | Teddy Edwards | Ray Triscari | Barney Kessel | Count Basie

The three albums that form the core of this collection date from 1959-61 when Lester Koenig signed Helen Humes, to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2021

Revival Room

Mark Hanslip | Johnny Hunter | Adam Fairhall

It’s hard to say why the organ trio has largely remained resistant to the lure of the avant-garde. Larry Young...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Dan Nicholls: Mattering and Meaning

A graduate from the jazz course at Birmingham Conservatoire, keys man for Squarepusher and a leading figure in the Loop...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

Mike Gibbs: Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes

Frank Ricotti | Chris Pyne | Chris Spedding | Malcolm Griffiths | Henry Lowther | John Marshall | Mick Pyne | Harry Beckett | Nigel Carter | Alan Skidmore

Taken from the ‘Mike Gibbs tape archive’, the discographical detail notes that the seven tracks on this CD were ‘recorded-live-in-the-studio’,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

Marcus Gilmore | Pat Metheny | James Francies

Our received notions of Pat Metheny is that there is not one, but two Pat Methenys. There’s the Pat Metheny...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021