Barney Wilen/Alain Jean-Marie: Montréal Duets

Alain Jean-Marie | Barney Wilen

Back in the 1950s, French-born but American-raised Wilen was the continental answer to our own Tubby Hayes. Like Hayes, Wilen's...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Dexter Gordon Quartet: Willisau 1978

George Cables | Dexter Gordon | Eddie Gladden | Rufus Reid

One band, one year, two gigs and two very different nights for Long Tall Dexter. The simultaneous release of these...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Raul de Souza Generations Band: Plenitude

Matheus Jardim | Raul de Souza | Glauco Solter | Alex Corrêa | Christope Schweizer

I was just typing up my review of this album last month when the sad news came through of de...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021

Katarsis4: Live at The Underground Water Reservoir

It is exactly what you think – four Lithuanian sax players (alto, tenor, baritone and sporano) improvise in a huge...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Herbie Lewis | Bill Evans | Walter Perkins | Dave Pike

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Tony Daw | Lee Griffiths | Matthew King | Charlotte Keeffe | Jonathan Thorne | Helen Papaioannou | Sam Andreae | Angie Wakefield | Richard Grimmett | Alex Frye

In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021

The Fourth World Quartet: 1975

Jack Waterstone | Roger C. Miller | Laurence Miller | Benjamin Miller

This semimythical Ann Arbor, Michiganbased group was formed in the mid-1970s by three brothers, Benjamin, Laurence and Roger Miller, whose...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2021

Sarah Wilson: Kaleidoscope

The laconic Californian-based trumpeter-vocalist-composer demonstrates a taste for freewheeling spirituals, Caribbean/Afro-Cuban beats and Lou Reed-influenced alt-rock on her largely engaging...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Duke Ellington: Plays Mary Poppins + Afro Bossa

Chuck Connors | Cat Anderson | Duke Ellington | Cootie Williams | Lawrence Brown | Sam Woodyard | Harry Carney | John Lamb | Jimmy Hamilton | Nat Woodard

Afro Bossa and Mary Poppins, together with The Symphonic Ellington, were easily the best albums of the Duke's brief sojourn...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Anna Webber: Idiom

Adam O'Farrill | Satoshi Takeishi | Matt Mitchell | Anna Webber | Nick Dunston | John Hollenbeck | Mariel Roberts | Nathaniel Morgan | Erica Dicker | Jacob Garchik

Vancouver-born composer and flautist-saxophonist Anna Webber's intrepidly personal music of recent years has plenty of jazz's improvisational momentum about it...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021