Caine, McBride, Questlove: The Philadelphia Experiment: 20th Anniversary Edition

Questlove | Uri Caine | Christian McBride

Twenty years ago, the release of this celebration of the city of brotherly love by three of its most illustrious...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021

Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown: Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown | Ernie Wilkins | Roy Haynes | Budd Johnson | Freddie Green | Miles Davis | Jimmy Jones | Mundell Lowe | Sarah Vaughan | JC Heard

The core of this album is nine of the 10 acclaimed tracks that Sarah Vaughan recorded with her regular trio...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2021

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958

Paul Desmond | Joe Morello | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright

In 1958, the Brubeck Quartet undertook an exhausting tour, first in Europe and then, sponsored by the US State Department,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

The Gerry Mulligan Sextet: Night Lights + Butterfly With Hiccups

John Gray | Bill Crow | Jimmy Bond | Jim Hall | Gerry Mulligan | Bob Brookmeyer | Dave Bailey | Art Farmer | Pete Jolly | Mulligan

Two ex-Limelight albums combined, and featuring the short-lived 1960s Mulligan sextet, together with a couple of live tracks for good...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Alice Coltrane

In the past few years, the full extent of Alice Coltrane's talents has been coming into sharper focus, and this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021

Alex Western-King: Sideslip

Jonny Wickham | Alex Western-King | Sam Leak | James Copus | Jay Davis

The impressively surnamed Western-King is a Guildhall music graduate, a classical clarinettist, a jazz saxophonist and author of Jazz Phrases...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Sven Wunder: Natura Morta

Composer Wunder combines an intriguing selection of string and wind instruments with percussion to create an album that's part jazzy...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021

Wooley-Mockünas-Guy-Gotesmanas: Nox

A pair of Lithuanians, a British bass legend and a renowned US trumpeter join forces for a propulsive, abstract improv...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Yaniv Taubenhouse: Moments In Trio Vol. 3

This contemporary piano trio of seven years favours singer-songwriter forms, groove playing and quirky versions of jazz standards, and does...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

The Saskatchewan All-Star Big Band: Saskatchewan Suite

Composer-keyboardist Fred Stride's orchestral suite pays tribute to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and fittingly conjures up a pastoral jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021