Wako: Live in Oslo

Kjetil A Mulelid

Especially since the millennium, Norway has been producing its own unique brand of left-field acoustic jazz as well as the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Harold Land: Westward Bound!

Harold Land

Make sure you don’t underestimate tenor saxophonist Harold Land. The perspicacious re-issue duo of Zev Feldman and Cory Weeds, who...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

Jimmy Witherspoon: Live in London 1966

Jimmy Witherspoon

Some of the UK musicians who once backed Mr Witherspoon would not accuse the singer of being Mr Nice Guy,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

Tony Bennett: Five Classic Albums

Tony Bennett

Supposing for a moment that we abandon the ‘is he or isn’t he a jazz singer?’ debate and agree that...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2021

Chris Sharkey: Presets

Chris Sharkey

With the ever-expanding range of digital processing available creative electric guitarists inevitably explore the instrument's potential as a sonic generator....

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: July/2021

Barney Wilen: La Note Bleue

Barney Wilen

Born in Nice in 1937 and something of a musical prodigy, Barney Wilen was barely out of his teens when...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Fred Frith/Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall

Avant-guitarist Frith and sound artist Mori have worked together for years now and this collaboration, taped in 2015, is inspired...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Zane Carney Quartet: Alter Ego

Carney is a splendid guitarist (with a neat line in spiralling arpeggios and crunching chords) and on this outing as...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Ack Van Rooyen: 90

Recorded in his 90th year, the doleful-toned Dutch flugelhornist sounds just fine with an elegant bop-plus sextet playing tunes by...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Horace Tapscott: Dial B For Barbara

Horace Tapscott

Pure Pleasure continues its reissue programme of the music of Horace Tapscott, making it clear to all who have ears...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021