Harry James: The Harry James Hits Collection 1938-53

Though this overlooks James’s work in small groups, some of which created some classic jazz, Acrobat have assembled a first-rate...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

Teddy Wilson | Art Tatum | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Ben Webster | Red Callendar | Bill Douglass

The core of this elegantly packaged release is the seven-track album cut by Tatum and Webster in 1956, and which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Complete Recordings 1922-1925

Arnold Loyacano | Jelly Roll Morton | Bob Gillette | Elmer Schoebel | Leo Adde | Leon Roppolo | George Brunies | Santo Pecora | Lou Black | Glenn Scoville

As a group of young white players who, in the 1920s, had decided to build their music around the example...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2019

Caroline Kraabel: Last 1 and Last 2

Philipp Wachsmann | Maggie Nicols | Cath Roberts | Mark Sanders | Caroline Kraabel | David Jago | Sue Lynch | John Edwards | Veryan Weston | Jackie Walduck

There are few sounds as bittersweet as Robert Wyatt’s singing voice – and it’s his fragile, tremulous falsetto that sits...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2019

Anton Eger: Æ

Otis Sandsjo | Matt Calvert | Mathias Heise | Anton Eger | Christian Lillinger | Juliette Marland | Dan Nicholls | Niels Broos | Petter Eldh | Ivo Neame

When witnessing ‘live’ the high flying international piano trio Phronesis, it’s the Oslo-born drummer Anton Eger who most catches your...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Atomic: Pet Variations

Hans Hulbækmo | Håvard Wiik | Magnus Broo | Fredrik Ljungkvist | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

When they formed in 2000, Norwegian/Swedish group Atomic, distanced themselves from the frosty ECM sound that dominated Scandinavian jazz at...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: March/2019

Claudio Fasoli N.Y. 4et: Selfie

This veteran Milan-based tenor-soprano saxophonist, now 79 years old, still makes the end-of-year lists. Here, his ace New York team...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Album Interview: Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: You Don't Know The Life

Jamie Saft | Bobby Previe | Steve Swallow

While previous albums by the Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte trio have tended to fall a little under the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Ran Blake + Jeanne Lee: The Newest Sound You Ever Heard

Here’s a treasure trove of newly-discovered material recorded by this brilliantly eccentric vocal/piano duo five years after their RCA disc...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Gabriel Zucker: Weighting

The New York-based pianist’s fourth studio album is an intriguingly brooding eight-movement suite drawing from 20th century classical, avant-jazz and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019