Don Dietrich: Dietrich/Chinese Root Letter/Tabulae Sex

This record of solo sax and electronics assaults the ears at the start and never lets up across five tracks...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Stan Getz: West Coast Jazz

Shelly Manne | Leroy Vinnegar | Stan Getz | Lou Levy | Conte Candoli | Stan Levey

Stan Getz, along with Ella, Sinatra and Tony Bennett, was one of the 20th century's most unique interpreters of what...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2017

Matt Mitchell: førage - The Music of Tim Berne

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell plays piano in Tim Berne's Snakeoil ensemble and clearly knows his leader's music inside out - which is...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017

Chris Biscoe/Allison Neale: Then And Now

Stu Butterfield | Allison Neale | Colin Oxley | Jeremy Brown | Chris Biscoe

The co-leaders, both respected soloists and bandleaders in their own right, have come together to play music inspired by the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Roy Eldridge: Roy Eldridge And His ‘Little Jazz’

Benny Vasseur | Robert Barnet | Roy Eldridge | William Boucaya | Dick Hyman | Albert Ferreri | Kenny Clarke | Pierre Michelot | Claude Bolling | Eddy Shaughnessy

In post-war Europe, the 10-inch LPs of which two (Roy Eldridge & His ‘Little Jazz’ and Jour Pour La Danse)...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2017

Eric Schaefer: Kyoto Mon Amour

Kazutoki Umezu | Eric Schaefer | Naoko Kikuchi | John Eckhardt

The Berlin-based Eric Schaefer will be familiar to UK jazz listeners as the drummer with Michael Wollny's Trio, but can...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry Sakura

Aki Takase | David Murray

The vast experience that Takase and Murray have as duet players is heard from the opening bars of the lengthy...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

David Gilmore: Transitions

I hope you took my esteemed colleague Kevin Le Gendre's advice and bought the brilliant Boris Kozlov CD Conversations At...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017

Carmen Lundy: Code Noir

Carmen Lundy | Ben Williams | Kendrick Scott | Elisabeth Oei | Patrice Rushen | Jeff Parker

Any new album by Carmen Lundy is a cause for celebration and, delivering a heady mix of jazz, blues, samba...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017

Eric Alexander Trio: Just One Of Those Things

Eric Alexander | Neal Smith | Dezron Douglas

Eric Alexander gets to his inner John Coltrane from the first notes of ‘Just One of Those Things’ to the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2017