Remy Le Boeuf: Assembly Of Shadows

This sax-flautist’s 20-piece orchestra’s atmospheric five-movement symphony is a kind of pastoral classical music largely influenced by jazz big bands...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Louis Armstrong: Live in Europe

Trummy Young | Bob McCracken | Sid Catlett | Marty Napoleon | Jack Teagarden | Cozy Cole | Barney Bigard | Louis Armstrong | Earl Hines | Arvell Shaw

The appearance of the Armstrong All Stars at the inaugural Nice Jazz Festival in 1948 is the stuff of legend,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Album Interview: Julia Hüsmann Quartet: Not Far From Here

Marc Muellbauer | Julia Hüsmann | Heinrich Köbberling | Uli Kempendorff

Julia Hülsmann, the Berlin-based pianist and composer, has opened a new chapter in the book of quietly inquisitive contemporary-jazz lyricism...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2020

Lisa Hilton: Chalkboard Destiny

A decidedly lacklustre affair, with the leader’s piano on mostly blues and latin-orientated compositions and a quartet (featuring the usually...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Nate Wooley: Battle Pieces 4

Sylvie Courvoisier | Nate Wooley | Ingrid Laubrock | Matt Moran

Nate Wooley explains the set-up of his Battle Pieces as a ‘social form’ which, in practice, works out as a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2020

The Miles Davis Quintet: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions

Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

This vinyl box, actually presented in the form of ‘an album’ in the way a collection of 12-inch 78rpm records...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2020

Mel Tormé: The Early Years 1944-47

Tracking Tormé’s career when he was aged 19-22, this shows what an accomplished singer he was as a former child...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Ben Bryden: Figure Of Eight

The mellifluously languid, contemporary cool school Scottish-born saxophonist Bryden is on a Mark Turner and Warne Marsh wavelength here, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Remember Me, My Dear

Jan Garbarek | Gordon Jones | Rogers Covey-Crump | Steven Harrold | David James

This concert from the farewell tour of the Garbarek/Hilliard collaboration differs from the three previous albums, Officium (1993), Mnemosyne (1998),...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

The Ed Palermo Big Band: The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren

Bob Quaranta | Ted Kooshian | Mike Boschen | Paul Adamy | Ben Kono | Charley Gordon | Ray Marchica | Phil Chester | Steve Jankowski | Ed Palermo

“The thing about this record is, I wanted it to be jazzier,” says Ed Palermo of his new disc, A...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020