Richie Beirach: Inborn

John Scofield | Adam Nussbaum | Randy Brecker | Richie Beirach | Michael Brecker | George Mraz

These dozen songs, recorded by pianist Richie Beirach during a two-day studio session, range from fluid hard-hitting quintet workouts to...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2018

Erin McDougald: Outside The Soirée

Chembo Corniel | Mark Sherman | Erin McDougald | Dan Block | Tom Harrell | Rodney Green | Dave Liebman | Rob Block | Cliff Schmitt

Featuring a smoking hot band which includes Dave Liebman on soprano and tenor saxes plus Tom Harrell on trumpet and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2018

Lauren Henderson: Árame

A singer with a stylistic yet sensuous delivery filters her Caribbean and latin sensibilities through a selection of soul, jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Barney Kessel: Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol. 2

Barney Kessel | Art Kile | Pete Jolly | Gene Stoffell

There was nothing that this guitar-pickin’ Okie from Muskogee couldn't handle. Without question Barney Kessel's list of achievements is nothing...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2018

Chet Baker: Portrait In Jazz By William Claxton

Russ Freeman | Shelly Manne | Gerry Mulligan | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Art Pepper | Bill Evans | Zoot Sims | Chico Hamilton | Philly Joe Jones

I have in my possession a selection of original William Claxton photographs of Chet Baker all signed by Chet himself....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2018

Bill Evans: New Jazz Conceptions

Joe Puma | Dick Garcia | Eddie Costa | Bill Evans | Camille Morin | Paul Motian | Oscar Pettiford | Jerry Bruno | Teddy Kotick

I know they say pop will eat itself (and probably has by now, while I wasn't looking) but it seems...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018

Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um: The Stereo and Mono Versions

Shafi Hadi | Booker Ervin | Horace Parlan | Jimmy Knepper | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | John Handy | Willie Dennis

Ah Um was widely acknowledged as Mingus's best release up to that point (Blues And Roots was recorded earlier but...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Jimmy Dorsey: The Hits Collection 1935-57

Arguably Jimmy Dorsey's fi nest achievements as a player were as a freelance in the 1930s, and in the band...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Linley Hamilton: Making Other Arrangements

Dave Redmond | Brendan Doyle | Nigel Clarke | Linley Hamilton | Ben Castle | Guy Rickarby | Dayna Masters | Cian Boylan

Trumpeter Hamilton is a luminary of the Northern Ireland jazz scene: well-known as a broadcaster, teacher and jazz activist. He...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2018

Hailey Tuck: Junk

Hailey Tuck

Looking like she's just stepped out of the pages of The Great Gatsby, this debut album from US vocalist Hailey...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2018