Annie Ross: Sings A Handful Of Songs

Annie Ross

Inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame in June 2009 and a recipient of an NEA Jazz Masters Award...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2017

Buselli-Wallerab Jazz Orchestra: Basically Baker (Vol. 2): The Big Band Music of David Baker

Trombonist, bandleader, educator, composer and arranger Baker (who died last March) was much loved in US jazz circles, so this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Bugge Wesseltoft: Somewhere In between

Dhafer Youssef | Håkon Kornstad | Joshua Redman | Erik Truffaz | Bugge Wesseltoft | Dan Berglund | Sidsel Endresen | Mari Bone

When Bugge Wesseltoft was at the forefront of the ‘Nu-Jazz’ craze that swept Europe in the late 1990s and early...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Nigel Thomas Quartet: Hidden

Winston Clifford | Paul Booth | Nigel Thomas | Mark Edwards

Hidden is the follow-up to 2011's Yoichi from bassist and composer Nigel Thomas and his collaborators. Thomas is Brighton-based and...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2017

Babos: Makrokozmosz

The veteran Hungarian guitarist Gyula Babos' ‘live’ quintet's energising electric jazz originals have an unlikely inspiration in Béla Bartók's ‘Dances...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Jamil Sheriff Trio: Places Like This

Pete Turner | Dave Walsh | Jamil Sheriff

The piano trio setting is still considered the test of a jazz pianist's mettle. Since his 2003 debut Daydreams, the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Robert Glasper Experiment: ArtScience

Derrick Hodge | Robert Glasper | Casey Benjamin | Mark Colenburg

Conqueror of an ‘urban’ audience and headliner at major venues around the world, Glasper has recorded to a consistently high...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Various Artists: Magic Moments 9: In the Spirit of Jazz

Another selection from the prominent Munich jazz label ACT's recent catalogue including tracks by Jan Lundgren, Paulo Fresu and Joachim...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Monocled Man: We Drift Meridian

Ed Begley | Rory Simmons | Emilia Mårtensson | Jon Scott | Chris Montague

Trumpeter Rory Simmons, a long standing member of the LOOP Collective and the Jamie Cullum band, has moved closer in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Les Spann & Mundell Lowe:

Grant Green | Milt Hinton | Billy Butler | Osie Johnson | Grady Tate | Les Spann | Kenny Burrell | Wild Bill Davis | Mundell Lowe | Johnny Hodges

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017