Ben Webster: Live at Pio's

Junior Mance | Mickey Roker | Bob Cranshaw | Ben Webster

First issued back in the 1980s, now available again on vinyl (mastered by Cicely Baston at Air), this might be...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2021

Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat: Worry Not

Richard Jones | Steve Hanley | Angus Milne | Emma Johnson | Fergus Vickers

Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat should get a prize for ‘Most Creative Band Name’. For now, they'll have to make do...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: September/2021

Ayumi Ishito & The Spacemen: Vol 1

This young Brooklyn-based saxophonist's interstellar quintet project quirkily combines sounds and energies from psych-synth prog, space-age Sun Ra and classical...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Roy Brooks: Understanding

Woody Shaw | Cecil McBee | Harold Mabern | Carlos Garnett | Roy Brooks

Drummer Roy Brooks may be known first and foremost for his work as a sideman with legends such as Horace...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

The Philadelphia Orchestra, cond. Christian Mačelaru: Wynton Marsalis: The Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2)

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Not only was Wynton Marsalis a very fine classical trumpet soloist, but he has written brilliantly for symphony orchestra in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2021

Balimaya Project: Wolo So

Percussionist-composer Yahael Camara Onono forges a link between his West African Mande traditions with brassy London-jazz Afro-beat interests in an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Larry Clinton & His Orchestra: All The Hits & More 1937-48

Bea Wain | Larry Clinton | Helen Southern | Peggy Mann | Mary Dugan | Ford Leary | Butch Stone | Dick Todd

Acrobat has become the home for second rank white American dance bands of 1930s and 1940s. Now comes this double-CD...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

William Parker: Mayan Space Station

Hamid Drake | Gerald Cleaver | Ava Mendoza | William Parker | Daniel Carter

One leader, two trios. It is not, after dozens of recordings over five decades, that bassist William Parker needs to...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Caity Gyorgy: Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy

Thomas Hainbuch | Jacob Wutzke | Lucas Dubovik | Nick Forget | Caity Gyorgy | Virginia MacDonald | Daniel Barta | Kyle Pogline | Kyle Tarder-Stoll | Felix Fox-Pappas

Originally from Calgary, Canada, and currently studying for a master's degree in jazz performance at McGill University in Montreal, vocalist,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2021

Jason Nazary: Spring Collection

This Brooklynite drummer-producer packs a punch with his mix of contemporary electronica and free jazz by integrating dense modular/analogue synth...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021