Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Jazz in the Space Age

João Paulo Esteves da Silva

As national jazz orchestras go, Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is remarkably progressive, performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2020

Jesper Thilo Quartet: Swing is the Thing

Danish saxophone legend who has recorded with swing giants such as Hank Jones and Clark Terry both growls and purrs...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Somi: Holy Room – Live at Alte Oper with Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Somi

Were it not for lockdown, we may never have got to hear this remarkable live album by vocalist and songwriter...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2020

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Black, Brown and Beige

Jimmy Woode | Cat Anderson | Sam Woodyard | Harry Carney | Billy Strayhorn | Fats Ford | Marshall | Clark Terry | Jimmy Hamilton | Mercer Ellington

Duke Ellington's 1943 extended composition billed as a ‘tone parallel to the history of the American Negro’ is one of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012

Joe Fielder's Big Sackbut: Live in Graz

Three trombones and a tuba will sound like heavy listening to most but Fielder's tribute to Roswell Rudd, who passed...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

George Benson: Weekend In London

George Benson

This new live album from the Pittsburgh-born guitarist captures last year's performance at Ronnie Scott's as part of the club's...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2020

The Strangest of Times: The Third Law Of Motion

Martin Slattery

Isaac Newton's titular law states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” – and that principle...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2020

ArtPepper: Four Classic Albums: Second Set

Wilbur Ware | Ray Bryant | Curtis Fuller | Pepper Adams | Paul Chambers | George Coleman | Lee Morgan | Bobby Timmons | Sonny Clark | Art Taylor

Want to buy a present for the alto saxophonist in your life? You could do no better than this, the...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2019

3'Ain

This Belgium-based trio's fivetrack EP is boosted by the moodily animated presence of the scintillating Syrian trumpeter Yamen Martini; otherwise...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Lasse Lindgren

A Swedish trumpeter, an ex-member of Bohuslan and Danish Radio Big Bands, hits some stratospheric high notes soloing in a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020