Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook Volume II

Sebastiaan de Krom | John Etheridge | Ben Crosland | Dave O'Higgins | Steve Lodder

All respect to Crosland for pursuing his love for Ray (and Dave) Davies with this second splendid volume celebrating their...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019

Jim Blomfield Trio: Strange Beauty (Every Way OK)

Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge | Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam

Pianist Jim Blomfield has been active in and around Bristol's creative music scene since the early 1990s, and local saxophonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Jonny Mansfield: Elftet

George Millard | Jonny Mansfeld | Oliver Mason | Will Harris | Dominic Ingham | Roy Ingham | Boz Martin-Jones | Kit Downes | Chris Potter | Gareth Lockrane

This ambitious undertaking by 2018 Kenny Wheeler prize winner Jonny Mansfield, a percussionist who specialises in the vibes, marks the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Shorty Rogers and his Giants/Gerry Mulligan and his Tentette: Modern Sounds

Shelly Manne | Gerry Mulligan | Gene Englund | Hampton Hawes | Don Bagley | Chet Baker | Shorty Rogers | Bud Shank | Art Pepper | Larry Bunker

If bebop was ‘hot’, then with perfect timing Newton's third law of motion – that every action has an equal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Alan Broadbent Trio: New York Notes

Billy Mintz | Alan Broadbent | Harvie S

Most recently, New Zealand-born Broadbent, long known as a front-rank arranger of strings and accompanist to prominent singers, as well...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2019

Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive: Vol 6 At The Side Door

Brian Lynch | Ralph Peterson | Essiet Essiet | Bobby Watson | Bill Pierce | Geofrey Keezer

The late drummer/leader Art Blakey was one of jazz's sharpest talent-spotters, an irrepressible cheerleader for the gospelly bluesy hard-bop style,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2019

Keith Tippett: The Unlonely Raindancer

Keith Tippett

Not a reissue as such of Tippett's solo piano debut. Instead, as no master tape exists, Discus owner Martin Archer,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019

Adam Niewood: Home With You, At Last

John Scofeld | Adam Niewood | John Patitucci | Jack DeJohnette

When an A-list dream line-up are assembled to support a relatively unknown leader, it tends to bring out the sceptic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Chick Corea/Gary Burton: Crystal Silence

Gary Burton | Chick Corea

Recorded in one day for a small German label few had heard of in 1972, it was really the start...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Jack Teagarden: This is Teagarden! + Chicago And All That Jazz!

This is post-Armstrong All Stars Teagarden, and two high points in what was the evening of his career, firstly a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019