Stan Getz: Quartet 1960

Stan Getz | Jan Johansson | Ray Brown | Ed Thigpen

Excerpts from three European concerts with a Norman Granz package (that also included Oscar Peterson and the Miles quintet with...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016

Christy Doran: In The Corner Of The Eye

Christy Doran | Urs Leimgruber | Marty Ehrlich | Ray Anderson | Hank Roberts

Since this is a collection of tracks recorded more than two decades ago, it is perhaps unsurprising that In The...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2016

Nick Klaman Quintet: Devil's Dance

This 25-year-old Swedish trumpeter's Swedish-Portuguese quintet has an exuberant if mildly chaotic rhythm section, but with a passionately inventive funky-jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Colosseum: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jason Marsalis | Jasen Weaver | Oscar Rossignoli

For those about to salivate over 150 minutes of jazz rock, we salute you. You may have lost count of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2020

Anoushka Shankar: Land of Gold

Manu Delago | Arif Durvesh | M.I.A. | Sanjeev Shankar | Akram Khan | Pirashanna Thevarajah | Caroline Dale | Vanessa Redgrave | Mitch Jones | Rhyl Primary School Girls for Equality

To my mind, Land of Gold is Anoushka Shankar's most realised and adventuresome, non-classical project of her career thus far....

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: October/2016

Nate Wooley/Hugo Antunes/Jorge Queijo/Mário Costa/Chris Corsano: Purple Patio

Jorge Queijo | Nate Wooley | Hugo Antunes | Chris Corsano | Mário Costa

In recent years, musicians such as saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and the young, piano-led RED Trio have been proving that there's...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2016

Jungle – Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake: Live At Okunden

Matthew Shipp | Mat Walerian | Hamid Drake

A striking monochrome sleeve photo of Walerian, crouched in the long grass of a bleached out copse, can be read...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2016

Clare Teal: Twelve O'Clock Tales

Hallé Orchestra | Jason Rebello | Mitch Dalton | Clare Teal | Matt Skelton | Jeremy Brown

As anyone who's had the pleasure of attending the official opening concert of the London Jazz Festival, Jazz Voice, will...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2016

Stan Getz: The Best Of Two Worlds Featuring João Gilberto

Billy Hart | Ray Armando | Clint Houston | Sonny Carr | Airto Moreira | Stan Getz | Heloisa ‘Mucha’ Buarque De Hollanda De Hollanda | Grady Tate | João Gilberto | Oscar Castro-Neves

By the time Getz left the Verve label to rock up at Columbia he probably felt that he had all...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2016

Lennie Niehaus: Complete 50s Recordings

A comprehensive 4CD set in one box by the great altoist and arranger, the claim is not quite true that...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2016