Various Artists: Caribbean In America 1915-1962

One of Frémeaux’ brilliant boxed sets that takes an idea and follows it through rigorously – in this case tracing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Lucy Reed: Complete Recordings 1950-1957

Another of the singers that Fresh Sound make a habit of rediscovering, Reed is a more than passable vocalist, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Larry Elgart: Easy Goin' Swing

With his cropped hair and hipster beard, altoist Elgart was ahead of his time in looks, but he was definitely...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Colin Stetson: All This I Do For Glory

Colin Stetson

Microphone placement and mixing are Stetson's art, as much as his formidable solo sax playing. His close miking, then massive...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2017

Daryl Runswick: The Jazz Years

Stan Sulzman | Harold Fisher | Tony Hymas | Don Rendell | Mick Pyne | Alan Skidmore | Alan Branscombe | Daryl Runswick | Mike Travis | Jim Philip

Runswick has enjoyed a disparate career in jazz, rock, pop, film and not least a 10-year stint as head of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Walt Weiskopf: Fountain Of Youth

Behn Gilece | Steve Fidyk | Peter Zak | Walt Weiskopf | Mike Karn

Saxophonists who have connections with the jazz-rock band Steely Dan make an impressive list: Michael Brecker, Phil Woods, Tom Scott,...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: August/2017

Frank Dupree and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie: George Antheil A Jazz Symphony

Frank Dupree | the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinlad-Pfalz Orchestra | Karl-Heinz Steffens

The common thread running through cubism, primitivism, dadaism, surrealism and all the other modernist ‘isms’ at the turn of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2017

Kathrine Windfeld Big Band: Latency

15-piece big band | Kathrine Windfeld

After her debut album Aircraft in 2015, Kathrine Windfeld went from unknown to ‘Scandinavia's New Big Band Star’ in one...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2017

Allegra Levy: Cities Between Us

This New York-based singer-songwriter writes new standards focusing mainly on love's vulnerability and fronting a swingin' contemporary folk-pop quintet that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Blazing Flame Quintet: The Set List Shuffle

Improvised ‘live’ in the studio, the experimental, Bristol-based Blazing Flame Quintet's new recording centres around the quirky lyrics/vocal of one...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017