John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco

Ranjit Barot | Kevin Scott | Etienne M’Bappe | Jimmy Herring | Jason Crosby | Jeff Sipe | Matt Slocum | Gary Husband | John McLaughlin

An important album in John McLaughlin's discography, Live in San Francisco is taken from his farewell tour of the US...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Gabrielle Ducomble: Across The Bridge

Saleem Raman | Bill Mudge | Gabrielle Ducomble | Fausto Beccalossi | Nick Kacal | Richard Jones | Nicolas Meier

Known primarily as an interpreter of songs by Legrand, Piaf, Piazzolla and more, as heard on J'ai Deux Amours (2011)...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2018

Sarah Vaughan: Sings George Gershwin

Originally a 2LP on Mercury (with Hal Mooney's Orchestra being to Sarah what Nelson Riddle's was to Ella), this attractive...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Live At The Village Vanguard

Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Anthony Tidd | Miles Okazaki | Steve Coleman

It's just over two decades since Coleman's Hot Brass sessions in Paris, a set of three live albums that established...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Complete Concert at Club Saint-Germain

Benny Golson | Gana M'Bow | Kenny Clarke | Lee Morgan | Jymie Merritt | Bobby Timmons | Art Blakey

This session should be better known and, despite being recorded 60 years ago, I believe this is the first time...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2018

Tommy Shepard/Richard Wess: Shepard's Flock/Music She Digs the Most

From mid-1950s New York, two medium-sized mainstream bands, with pianist Wess's neat playing and tight eight-piece band having a slight...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Bossa Nova USA

Joe Morello | Paul Desmond | Gene Wright | Dave Brubeck

Between 1955, when he signed with Columbia, and 1966, a year before Dave Brubeck wound up his famous quartet, Brubeck...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Camilla George: The People Could Fly

Winston Clifford | Omar Lye-Fook | Daniel Casimir | Shirley Tetteh | Femi Koleoso | Sarah Tandy | Quentin Collins | Camilla George | Cherise Adams-Burnett

African folk tales of slavery and lost powers of flight sent Camilla George to sleep as a child in Nigeria....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2018

The Rob Dixon Trio: Coast to Crossroads

Charlie Hunter | Mike Clark | Ernest Stuart | Rob Dixon

Saxophonist Rob Dixon's confident phrasing and poised sense of time are grounded in four years playing with Illinois Jacquet's big...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2018

Kent Harian/Ted McNabb: Echoes of Joy/Big Bad Swing

In Fresh Sound's ‘East Coast’ series, two relatively obscure bands play fi ne charts with great soloists, including Al Cohn...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018