Count Basie: Live In Berlin 1963

Frank Foster | Sonny Cohn | Urbie Green | Frank Wess | Count Basie | Benny Powell | Charlie Fowlkes | Henry Coker | Ricky Fortunatus | Jimmy Rushing

European Radio has done us all a great service by recording the Basie band at various stages of the evolution...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017

Nakama: Most Intimate

The Norwegian bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen's quintet's recording sometimes comes across as overly cerebral, its mix of Euro-jazz, traditional...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Nick Travis: Featuring Al Cohn

Another of Fresh Sound's excellent revaluations, in which the first call NY trumpeter Nick Travis takes the spotlight in his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017

Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne: Homecoming

Vince Mendoza

Vince Mendoza has had quite a long association with the WDR Big Band, dating back at least to the Vince...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Mariah Parker Indo Latin Jazz: Live in Concert

Blending East Indian rhythms with latin syncopations, Californian pianist Mariah Parker's band includes reedsman Paul McCandless and takes an easy-listening...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Maurizio Grandinetti: Seek

A Swiss-based guitarist who draws from minimalism, ambient and abstract improv, though it's the track ‘Take Life as a Slow...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Gilad Atzmon/Alan Barnes: The Lowest Common Denominator

Gilad Atzmon | Chris Higginbotham | Yaron Stavi | Alan Barnes | Frank Harrison

Barnes and Atzmon have been an item musically for a while now. Barnes tells me that he's getting a real...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Thomas Clausen/Francesco Cali: The Voyage

A fairly exquisite, ‘less-is-more’ recording from a duo of Italian accordionist and pianist that falls somewhere between Nino Rota, Italian,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Stan Sulzmann/John Taylor: Double Exposure

Stan Sulzmann | John Taylor

An interesting lost work, which was presumably intended for release at the time but probably abandoned by the producers as...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017

dMu: Synaptic Self

Unleashing a determined, furiously dark, animalistic blast of metal-jazz improv are the trio dMu, featuring reedsman Josh Sinton, guitarist Alvaro...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017