Mark Whitfield: Live & Uncut

Ben Allison | Mark Whitfield | Billy Drummond

This live recording from Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan was made using a single binaural microphone. “This technique places the...

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

Peggy Lee: With the Benny Goodman Orchestra 1941-47

This draws together material from Lee’s two main stints with Goodman (1941-43 and 1947), including airshots and studio sessions, giving...

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

Julia Biel

Saleem Raman | Samy Bishai | Idris Rahman | Rob Updegraff | Julia Biel

The follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Love Letters and Other Missiles, which garnered nominations for a MOBO and an Urban Music...

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

The Dudley Moore Trio: Today

Dudley Moore | Chris Karan | Peter Morgan

Ah, Cuddly Dudley, he sings, he swings and life is rich and fun and yet, and yet, and yet… tucked...

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

Lorenz Kellhuber: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival

A young prizewinning German pianist with technique to spare taking the classic Jarrett ‘live’ route (with similar references to classical...

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

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Heptagon

Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | Brandon Lopez | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | William Parker | Joe Hertenstein | Bobby Kapp | Gerald Cleaver

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Hugh Masekela: Sixty/Black To The Future/Notes Of Life

Hugh Masekela | Don Laka | Fana Zulu

South African trumpeter-vocalist Masekela recorded this trio of albums in a four-year period in the mid-1990s in what seemed like...

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

Slax MacFarlane and His Festive Five: Deck the Halls with Boughs of Bebop

Delmore Anderson | Ross Niedermeyer | Slax MacFarlane | Lennie Crivelli | Boomer Haswell

New York session trumpeter Slax MacFarlane threw together this five-piece combo to cash-in on the Yuletide hullabaloo of 1972. And,...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Brooklyn Raga Massive: Terry Riley In C

Andrew Schantz | Adam Malouf | Ken Shoji | Roshni Samlal | Lauren Crump | Jane Mathis | Timothy Hill | Michael Gam | Vin Scialla | David Ellenbogen

Terry Riley’s landmark of minimalist composition, In C, has been tackled in a number of different ways since its initial...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Nat Steele: Portrait of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Dario Di Lecce | Nat Steele | Gabriel Latchin | Steve Brown

Given both its instrumentation and the album’s title it would be easy to assume that Steele’s new quartet is just...

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