Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz: Fairytales

Radka Toneff | Steve Dobrogosz

Chances are you have neither heard of this album or Radka Toneff. But the album is recognised as a jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations

Julian Lage | Tom Rainey | Scott Colley | Nels Cline

Following his gently epic Blue Note debut, Lovers, Cline returns to more familiar territory with a spate of post-bop workouts...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2018

Duke Ellington: The Complete Ellington Indigos

Jimmy Woode | Cat Anderson | Sam Woodyard | Harry Carney | Clark Terry | Jimmy Hamilton | John Sanders | Shorty Baker | Rock Henderson | Ozzie Bailey

Recorded between the Ellington Songbook with Ella and the Perfume Suite, this catches the band in a purple patch. Though...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018

Owen Broder: Heritage: The American Roots Project

Ryan Truesdell | Jay Anderson | Owen Broder | Vuyo Sotashe | Sarah Caswell | James Shipp | Nick Finzer | Alphonso Horne | Miho Hazama | Bill Holman

A highly unusual debut album for reedsman Broder, aiming to create a jazz setting for the kind of folk influence...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2018

Hugh Masekela: ‘66-’76

Al Abreu | Joe Sample | Hugh Masekela | Arthur Adams | Chuck Carter | William Henderson | Caiphus Semenya | Letta Mbulu | Philemon Hou | John Cartwright

The great Bra Hugh might be playing trumpet and flugelhorn in the sky but his legacy lives on – and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2018

Stan Getz & Lionel Hampton: Hamp & Getz

Shelly Manne | Bill Crow | Leroy Vinnegar | Stan Getz | Jimmy Raney | Duke Jordan | Lou Levy | Frank Isola | Lionel Hampton

Hamp and Getz occupies the first five lengthy tracks here and in the day their collaboration earned fivestar reviews. Thought...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2018

Billy Jenkins: Ghost Music

Billy Jenkins

The ‘Ghost’, perhaps, is Billy Jenkins the guitar man, as the six strings have been laid to rest. Instead, Jenkins...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2018

Christy Doran: Undercurrent

Swiss guitarist Christy Doran is an experimental yet blues-infused jazz lyricist who conjures up a grittily atmospheric vibe with his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Michael Adkins Quartet: Flaneur

Michael Adkins | Paul Motian | Larry Grenadier | Russ Lossing

Flânerie, to condense Brian Morton's erudite sleeve note, celebrates the chance encounters of urban life. For Charles Baudelaire, one of...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2018

Louis Armstrong and Dave Brubeck: The Real Ambassadors

The weakness here is the material a musical by Dave and Iola Brubeck, which had one public performance and commemorated...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018