Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie: Bird And Diz

Tommy Potter | Max Roach | Thelonious Monk | Kenny Dorham | Miles Davis | Walter Bishop Jr. | Charlie Parker | Buddy Rich | Al Haig | Curly Russell

As a neat counterpart to the Dial and Savoy reissues reviewed above, this single CD covers what one might call...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

Howes3: Moving Forward

The young trio Howes3 are from Brighton but we won't hold that against them; they're a dinky combination of Herbie-ish...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Rob Luft: Life is the Dancer

Byron Wallen | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Tom McCredie | Rob Luft | Luna Cohen | Corrie Dick

We need be gentle with Luft. He's spectacularly talented, but there can be costs to being the hardest working man...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Tomas Janzon: 130th & Lenox

This guitarist's mid-tone range and understated presence gives this session a warm if oddly blurred collective sonicworld for the most...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Fela Ransome Kuti & His Highlife Rakers: Fela's First – The Complete 1959 Melodise Session

JK Braimah | Fela Ransome Kuti | Wolo Bucknor

A totally fascinating document on a number of accounts. This debut by one of the most significant musicians of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020

Oneness Of Juju: African Rhythms

Plunky Nkabinde Branch

Brainchild of saxophonistbandleadercomposer Plunky Nkabinde Branch, Oneness of Juju was one of the flagship ensembles of a fiercely political independent...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020

Micah Thomas: Tide

Pianist Micah Thomas has already impressed this writer on Matthew Stevens/Walter Smith Ill's In Common II CD, and his debut...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Christian McBride | Joshua Redman | Brian Blade | Brad Mehldau

What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Rachel Therrien: Vena

An impressive young Canadian trumpeter/flugelhornist and her all-embracing contemporary jazz quintet's influences range from free jazz through to Cuban music,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Curtis Stigers: Gentleman

Jody Ferber | David Piltch | Austin Beede | John “Scrapper” Sneider | Curtis Stigers | Doug Yowell | Larry Goldings

This follow-up to his fabulous 2017 live album with the Danish Radio Big Band, One More for the Road, finds...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020