Dara Tucker: Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World

Dana Tucker

While every song covered on vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Dara Tucker's Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2021

Ben Haskins Quartet: 2020 Laid up

The young guitarist-composer Ben Haskins sounds like he's on a similar wavelength to Kurt Rosenwinkel and Bill Frisell, and his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021

Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda

Noah Preminger

Reeds maestro Noah Preminger and bassist Kim Cass are go-to musicians in New York left-field jazz, The better-known Preminger has...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2021

Down For The Count: At The Cold Stores

Max Fagandini

I first heard this local ensemble and their tidy versions of swing classics a year or so ago, their youthful...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2021

Count Basie and his Orchestra: The Count Basie Collection 1937-39

Count Basie

For those who don't own the 1992 GRP box set documenting this era of Basie, or who may not have...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: June/2021

Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth

Dan Wilson

On much of this album there's a fine live feeling in the studio. ‘The Reconstruction’, has some burning solos from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2021

SoSaLa: Nu World Trashed

SoSaLa

SoSaLa is the nom de guerre of Swiss-born Iranian American saxophonist Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who counts Ornette Coleman, the Master...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2021

Mark Feldman: Sounding Point

Mark Feldman

Violinist Mark Feldman has had an astonishingly rich and varied musical life. He cut his teeth performing classical music as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2021

Charlie Parker: At Café Society

Dick Hyman | Roy Haynes | Al Haig | Parker | Kenny Dorham | Irv Kluger

These three reissues, identified by their recording location, all carry polite warnings about the sound quality. The performances from Boston's...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2021

Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra: The Unreleased WDR Recordings 1957-1974

Jimmy Deuchar | Sahib Shihab | Kurt Edelhagen | Benny Bailey | Herb Geller | Ronnie Stephenson | Gordon Beck | Kenny Wheeler | Jiggs Whigham | Dusko Goykovic

Kurt Edelhagen was a major force in German jazz, his orchestra home to an all-star ensemble that included top US,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2021