Sarah Vaughan/Quincy Jones: Misty

Originally out as Vaughan and Violins, these orchestral charts are by Q during his Paris sojourn, studying with Nadia Boulanger,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Abdullah Ibrahim: Ancient Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim

This exemplifies the mature period of Ibrahim when, following his late 1950s-early 60s South African band work and his 1960s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Lionel Hampton: Jazz Time Paris Vols 4, 5 & 6

Hampton's 1953 Franco-American jam session is famous in the annals of Americans in Europe, but now it seems strangely ploddy,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Bill Doggett: Oops!/Prelude to the Blues

Two tenors, organ and rhythm was a formula that served Doggett well after his early big band days with Lucky...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Bobby Jaspar: Bobby Jaspar's New Jazz

This is one of the high points of the Belgian saxophonist's Parisian sojourn, before his ultimately less happy move to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Lonnie Liston Smith: Love Is The Answer

Complex backings and a simple melodic overlay are the formula here, which palls when you realise how vacuous the whole...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Ballet (The Music of Michael Gibbs)

Luke Bergman | Bill Frisell | Cuong Vu | Ted Poor

A release by heroes dedicated to another. Frisell has of course been a long time collaborator of Gibbs and worked...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2017

Myles Wright: The Manhattan EP

24-piece jazz orchestra | Myles Wright

With April and The Manhattan EP we have snapshot of the current Boston/New York contemporary big band scene. April, funded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Ulf & Eric Wakenius: Father and Son

Eric Wakenius | Ulf Wakenius

Did you know that Cat Stevens was Swedish? Actually, you can't have ‘known’ that, either before or now, because it's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2017

Georges Kaplan Presents…: Four Card Trick

The London-based duo of keyboardist Stephan Barrett and alto-saxophonist Dan Strange get their kicks creating a cocktail of swampy garage...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017