Scott Willcox Big Band: All Change!

Bob McKay | Ben Hazelton | Julian Costello | Martin Gladdish | Gabriel Garrick | David Frankel | Gary Willcox | David Horden | Georgia Mancio | Duncan Eagles

Scott Willcox is a composer and arranger and this is the fourth release by his occasional big band, now effectively...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018

Georgia Gibbs: The Georgia Gibbs Collection 1946-58

A versatile singer who is less remembered today than she ought to be, but hopefully this intelligently selected set of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Aki Rissanen: Another North

Teppo Mäkynen | Antti Lötjönen | Aki Rissanen

In March 2016, Rissanen was the subject of a Taking Off piece in Jazzwise magazine to celebrate Amorandom, his debut...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018

Joy Ellis: Life On Land

Joy Ellis | Adam Osmianski | Rob Luft | James Copus | Binker Golding | Henrik Jensen

Inspired by London life, this is a concept album of unusual, old-fashioned ambition. The singer-songwriter side of Ellis’s diverse music...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2018

Charles Mingus: Complete Live At The Bohemia 1955

Willie Jones | Mal Waldron | Bill Hardman | Max Roach | Shafi Hadi | George Barrow | Jimmy Knepper | Eddie Bert | Charles Mingus | Phineas Newborn

Not often described as essential, this excellent two-hour-plus live session done for Mingus and Roach’s Debut label is doubtless overlooked...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2018

LEF: Hypersomniac

Nils Petter Molvær | Bill Laswell | Kenneth Kapstad | Rebecca Sneddon | Nils Petter Molvaer | Lorenzo Esposito Fornasiri aka LEF | Eivind Aarset | Ståle Storløkken

Fornasiri’s vox have gloomed over several RareNoise outings, notably the bonkers Berserk. This however is his individual debut, part of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

Various Artists: The Women of Bossa Nova Vol, 1

A strong and well put-together anthology of four of the female greats of bossa, Caterina Valente, Alaide Costa, Maysa and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Elliot Galvin: The Influencing Machine

Tom McCredie | Corrie Dick | Elliot Galvin

Elliot Galvin is the most conceptual and intellectual of the Chaos Collective, the former student friends whose most public platform...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2018

The Oscar Peterson Trio + The Singers Unlimited: In Tune

Len Dresslar | Jiri Mraz | Oscar Peterson | Louis Hayes | Don Shelton | Bonnie Herman | Gene Puerling

Despite the excellence of Oscar Peterson’s enormous output on Norman Granz’s Verve label, his playing seemed to reach full maturity...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyōbin

Derek Bailey | Dave Holland | John Stevens | Evan Parker | Kenny Wheeler

It’s an alarming thought that the Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyōbin – widely considered to be a founding document of British...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018