Charles Lloyd Quartet: Montreux Jazz Festival 1967

Ron McClure | Keith Jarrett | Charles Lloyd | Jack DeJohnette

This is the Charles Lloyd Quartet hitting the peak of its powers during its brief lifetime that had begun on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Percy Heath | Billy Higgins | Don Payne | Don Cherry | Walter Norris | Charlie Haden | Ornette Coleman | Shelley Manne

OC completists spoiler alert – this is more than another reissue of a chef d'oeuvre from a monumental musician who...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Erroll Garner: Dreamstreet

Kelly Martin | Erroll Garner | Alvin Stoller | Eddie Calhoun | Keith Mitchell

Erroll Garner couldn't read a note of music. Not that it affected his career a jot. His Concert By The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Fred Hersch Trio: Ten Years/6 Discs

John Herbert | Eric McPherson | Fred Hersch

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Fred Hersch Trio, whose personnel has remained constant throughout, Palmetto have released in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Chris Burn: as if as

Philip Thomas

Transcribing Derek Bailey guitar improvisations for solo pianist might seem like a uniquely pointless exercise, one that rubs against the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

ARQ Alison Rayner Quintet: Short Stories

Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Alison Rayner | Steve Lodder

Sometimes sadness is all there is. Short Stories takes its title from Rayner's loss of loved ones, using jazz to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Bill Evans: Interplay

Bill Evans | Larry Bunker | Chuck Israels

The Matchball reissue seems to be identical to part of a 2CD set which was billed as being both the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Loz Speyer's Time Zone: Clave Sin Embargo

Stuart Hall | Andy Ball | Dave Manington | Martin Hathaway | Loz Speyer | Maurizio Ravalico

Loz Speyer has long been on the list of idiosyncratic British jazz musicians arguably requiring further attention. Following 2017's Inner...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Brötzmann/Schlippenbach/Bennink: Fifty Years After… Live At The Lila Eule Bremen 26.05.2018

Alex Von Schlippenbach | Peter Brötzmann | Han Bennink

This pugnacious live encounter was performed as part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Peter Brötzmann's game-changing classic...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Kirk Whalum: Humanité

Kirk Whalum curls his smooth sax lines around a gaggle of guest vocalists, including UK favourite Liane Carroll, singing soul-pop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020