Owls: Crumbling Light

Led by the pianist-composer Simon Oberleitner, this classy young Vienna-based contemporary piano trio draws from the EST legacy while upping...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Janne Schaffer: Janne Schaffer's Andra LP

Janne Schaffer | Björn J:Son Lindh | Mads Winding | Björn Linder | Stefan Brolund | Per Sahlberg | Lukas Lindholm | Malando Gassama | Pete Robinson | John Gustavsson

Swedish guitarist Schaffer is best known for his session work with ABBA but his little-known mid-1970s studio recordings made under...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2017

Hank Mobley: Four Classic Albums – Second Set

Hank Jones | Percy Heath | Billy Mitchell | Ray Charles | Milt Hinton | Connie Kay | John Lewis | Milt Jackson | Oscar Pettiford | Lucky Thompson

This is a significant supplement to the same label's previous Mobley set reviewed in Jazzwise 214. Whereas that compilation concentrated...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019

Jared Sims: Change of address

This thick-toned West Virginian baritone saxophone specialist's retro R&B organ/jazz funk quintet is something that's been done-to-death by now, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Mike Westbrook: Live 1972

Alan Jackson | Gary Boyle | Butch Potter | George Khan | Mike Westbrook

Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Dwight Trible with Matthew Halsall: Inspirations

Of all the sounds of jazz, the vocal is the most accessible because it is the most familiar and immediate...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018

Various Artists: Colours of Raga

Durga Prasad Mishra | Halim Jaffar Khan | Damodar Lal Kabra | Manju Bhatt | Amiya Gopal Bhattacharya | Umashankar Mistra | Jyotish Chandra Chowdhury | Shyamlal Bansuri | Ganga Mistra | Sadashiva Paer

The Bengali ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) left a phenomenal legacy of recorded music, scattered over different labels and different territories....

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: August/2017

Gene Howard: Love is a Drag – For Adult Listening Only

To release an album in 1962 with a man singing love songs to other men, given the homophobic climate of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Steve Nelson: Brother Under the Sun

Steve Nelson | Danny Grissett | Lewis Nash | Peter Washington

When pianist Mulgrew Miller died of a stroke in 2013, aged 53, he left a legacy of 15 albums as...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2017

Hanging Hearts: Into a Myth

The Chicago-based Chris Weller is a saxophonist in his city's gutsy tenor mould and his trio collective pumps out a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017