Dick Morrissey: Live At The Bell

Dick Morrissey | Alan Berry | Lennie Best | Bill Larue | Ron Hetherington

Acrobat must be among the market leaders in jazz salvage. Hard on the heels of their recent Tubby Hayes and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Jimmy Smith/Lou Donaldson: Complete Studio Recordings

Drawn from selected Blue Note albums this catches Smith at his best for that label (1957-1963) paired with the on-form...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Scott DuBois: Autumn Wind

The second in a season-themed series following the guitarist’s Winter Light is evocative tone poetry for strings and quartet that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Aldo Romano: Mélodies En Noir & Blanc

Michel Benita | Dino Rubino | Aldo Romano

Aldo Romano is a drummer, but this album is a celebration of the lyrical power of the piano, with its...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Wadada Leo Smith: Meditations On Monk/Najwa

Pheeroan akLaff | Lamar Smith | Adam Rudolph | Bill Laswell | Wadada Leo Smith | Henry Kaiser | Brandon Ross | Michael Gregory Smith

Two contrasting sides of the trumpeter-composer that are linked by creative slight of hand and conceptual audacity. Performing the music...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Norma Winstone/Glauco Venier/Klaus Gesing: Descansado - Songs for Films

Helge Andreas Norbakken | Norma Winstone | Klaus Gesing | Glauco Venier | Mario Brunello

This is Norma Winstone’s fifth collaboration with Glauco Venier and Klaus Gesing – their first was Chamber Music recorded for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Martial Solal & Dave Liebman: Masters in Bordeaux

Martial Solal | Dave Liebman

In 1963, Martial Solal appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. The album that resulted – Martial Solal at Newport ’63...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Sidney Bechet: Essential Original Albums

Three CDs for under £10 looks a bargain, but the first is an amalgam of LP anthologies, and the latter...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Adam Rogers: DICE

Fima Ephron | Adam Rogers | Nate Smith

Rogers delivers his tried, tested and splendidly muscular technique on a release of tight rockers that, just when they may...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Various Artists: Bossa Nova – Four Classic Albums

Duplicating the Mendes album above, and adding two by João Gilberto and one by Walter Wanderley. This would make a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018