André Previn/Herb Ellis/Shelly Manne/Ray Brown: 4 To Go!

Previn's jazz piano playing is intriguing, because it shows such phenomenal technique, with occasionally stilted timing, but a harmonic imagination...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Kenny Burrell: Bluesin' Around

Hank Jones | Illinois Jacquet | Osie Johnson | George Duvivier | Leo Wright | Eddie Bert | Jack McDuff | Major Holley | Kenny Burrell | Jimmy Crawford

First released on LP by Columbia some 20 years after these varied sessions were recorded, this CD version is in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Anthony Braxton Quintet: (Basel) 1977

Mark Helias | Anthony Braxton | George Lewis | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Muhal Richard Abrams

Over the last couple of decades the balance has tipped in Anthony Braxton's work away from formally-constituted groups towards a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017

David Binney: The Time Verses

Dan Weiss | Shai Golan | Jen Shyu | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks

The older he gets – and your reviewer is now in his 90th year – the more he worries about...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2017

Trio 3: Visiting Texture

Andrew Cyrille | Oliver Lake | Reggie Workman

As they proved on previous Intakt releases that featured pianists Geri Allen and Vijay Iyer, respectively, the Lake-Workman-Cyrille ensemble works...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

Wayne Shorter: Native Dancer

Airto Moreira | Herbie Hancock | Wayne Shorter | Roberto Silva | Dave McDaniel | Wagner Tiso | Milton Nascimento

Native Dancer represented Shorter's growing fascination with Portuguese and Brazilian culture following his marriage to his Portuguese wife Ana Maria...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Billie Holiday: Complete Decca Recordings

Cut between 1944 and 1950, this is largely Billie with big bands and studio orchestras, negotiating strings and occasionally over-written...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Dizzy Gillespie: The Greatest of Dizzy Gillespie

This is slightly lazy reissuing from Sony/RCA, as surely Dizzy is due the Complete RCA box that other artists have...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Kenny Warren Quartet: Thank You For Coming To Life

Satoshi Takeishi | Noah Garabedian | JP Schlegelmilch | Kenny Warren

Colorado-born, New York-based Warren clearly has a lot more going for him than his distinguished initials. As well as indulging...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Gianluigi Trovesi Umberto Petrin: Twelve Colours and Synesthetic Cells

An album that references the mystical composer Alexander Scriabin, this is the reedsman Trovesi's sophisticated classical-rooted improvisations with the pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017