Spirit: It Shall Be: The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972

J. Christian Staehely | Mark Andes | Randy California | Jay Ferguson | John Locke | Ed Cassidy | Al Staehely

Originally called Spirits Rebellious, after a book of short stories by Lebanese-American writer Khalil Gibran, this phenomenal 1960s US psychedelic...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2018

Tom Arthurs: One Year

Richard Fairhurst | Markku Ounaskari | Tom Arthurs

When they made their fine Postcards from Pushkin duo album seven years ago, the expat British trumpeter Tom Arthurs and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2018

Lewis Wright: Duets

Lewis Wright | Kit Downes

As a member of the razor sharp neo-modernist quartet Empirical since 2008, the young vibraphonist Lewis Wright revealed his conceptual,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Satoko Fuji: Solo

Andrew McCormack

For her 60th year, this prolific pianist is releasing a recording every month; she makes an instant impact with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Eugene Chadbourne: The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session

This 1977 recording, originally on cassette, documents Chadbourne's idiosyncratic guitar playing before he began his long association with Leo Records,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Booker Ervin: The Good Book: The Early Years 1960-62

Grant Green | Andrew Cyrille | Mal Waldron | Eric Dolphy | Charli Persip | Booker Little | Larry Ridley | Booker Ervin | Horace Parlan | Addison Farmer

Ervin is scarcely remembered these days except by fans of Mingus, and possibly of mid-1960s Randy Weston, but those who...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018

Jack Hylton And His Orchestra: Just Humming Along

Featuring vocalist Pat O'Malley, this collection draws attention to what was Britain's top-selling dance orchestra of the early 1930s, playing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Wingfield/Reuter/Sirkis: Lighthouse

Asaf Sirkis | Markus Reuter | Mark Wingfield

Set controls for the heart of a… dark, dark night. Sirkis has never been one to take prisoners when it...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2018

Edmond Hall with the Ralph Sutton Quartet: “Live” at Club Hangover

Complementing the Commodore Quartets that Ed Hall made with Teddy Wilson, this 1954 set of broadcasts – well recorded and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

PARA: Paraphon

From Austrian/Greek backgrounds, this trio have an unusual line-up of French horn doubling on occasional vocal, prepared piano and bass....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018