Benny Goodman: Small Bands Collection 1935-45

Slam Stewart | Lionel Hampton | Jane Harvey | Dave Tough | Fletcher Henderson | Mel Powell | John Kirby | Count Basie | Ralph Collier | Dudley Brooks

On one level, this compilation gives a very informative bird's eye view of the Benny Goodman small groups over their...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Compassion

Alvin Queen | Charles Tolliver | Nathan Page | Steve Novosel

During its lifetime, Charles Tolliver and the late Stanley Cowell's legendary Strata-East label released some of the very best jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2021

Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom

Yvette Janine Jackson

Whether it is broached in music, literature, painting or theatre, the subject of slavery remains a pivotal undertaking for African-American...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt: Music For Chamber Orchestra and Small Ensemble

Sam Pluta | Adam Matlock | Robert Landfermann | Cory Smythe | Josh Modney | Tom Rainey | Zeena Parkins | Ingrid Laubrock | Susanne Blumenthal

Ingrid Laubrock, the German-born, New York-based saxophonist and composer, set out a new marker for the lively relationship between contemporary...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021

Jazzrausch Bigband: téchne

Moritz Stahl | Jelena Kuljic | Thorben Schütt | Frederik Mademann | Thomas Kölbl | Viktoria Tolstoy | Marco Dufner | Nils Landgren | Julian Hesse | Nesrine

After tackling Ludwig Van on 2020's Beethoven's Breakdown, Munich's ever-enterprising Jazzrausch Bigband now have a go at inventing a completely...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2021

Kruglov/Hume/May/Yudanov: Last Train from Narvskaya

Recorded at the Leo Festival in Russia last November, this British-Russian improv collective embrace both the lyrical and the abstract...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

James Hudson: Tomorrow

A recent ex-National Youth Jazz Orchestra vocal chair, the assured London-based MOR crooner James Hudson likes best the old-fashioned ways...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Yoko Miwa Trio: Songs of Joy

Yoko Miwa | Scott Goulding | Will Slater | Brad Barrett

The new release from Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa has an appealing lockdown title. Who couldn't do with a little joy...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2021

Gretchen Parlato: Flor

Mark Guiliana | Marcel Camargo | Airto Moreira | Artyom Manukyan | Gretchen Parlato | Léo Costa | Gerald Clayton

In her first recording as leader since her Grammy-nominated 2013 album Live in NYC, Flor sees vocalist, songwriter and producer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021

Andy Hague's Double Standards: Release

Trumpeter/flugelhornist Andy Hague's Bristol-based quartet is firmly rooted in the acoustic modernist and hard-bop vein, and pianist Jonathan Taylor's classy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021