Duck Baker: Outside

Duck Baker | Eugene Chadbourne

Baker's first outing, many light years ago, was There's Something for Everyone in America and these two reissues remind us...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

Kenny Burrell Septet: Blue Lights

Junior Cook | Sir Roland Hanna | Kenny Burrell | Tina Brooks | Sam Jones | Duke Jordan | Bobby Timmons | Ben Tucker | Art Blakey | Louis Smith

We wrote recently here about Burrell's current form. A veteran now and largely subsumed into jazz education, he can certainly...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Withdrawal

Barry Guy | Derek Bailey | Trevor Watts | John Stevens | Evan Parker | Paul Rutherford | Kenny Wheeler

These important recordings represent some of the missing pieces in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble jigsaw that links their earliest recorded...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2016

The Keith Tippett Octet: The Nine Dances of Patrick O'Gonogon

Sam Mayne | Julie Tippetts | James Gardiner-Bateman | Tom McCredie | Keith Tippett | Rob Harvey | Fulvio Sigurta | Kieran McLeod | Peter Fairclough

No surprise, given the title, that Tippett is inspired by Irish folk music in a suite that moves through three...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

Carol Sloane: Sophisticated Lady

Sloane's singing fits the caricature of the smoky-voiced jazz nightclub singer, and while she's perfectly capable, and beautifully backed here...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2016

Steve Lawson: The Surrender of Time

Steve Lawson

If the concept of the studio as an instrument is one that's been around since the birth of multi-track recording...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2016

Dominique Pifarély Quartet: Tracé Provisoire

Bruno Chevillon | François Merville | Antonin Rayon | Dominique Pifarély

This album was recorded in the south of France last summer, but it would be misleading to say that it's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2016

Kid Ory: The Kid Ory Collection 1922-28

Forty-five tracks across two CDs follow Ory from the first discs in L.A. to his days flitting across the Chicago...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2016

Klaus Gesing/Björn Meyer/Samuel Rohrer: amiira

Klaus Gesing | Samuel Rohrer | Björn Meyer

As Jack DeJohnette's recent trio release, In Movement, with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison, proved, it's the bass guitar that...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2016

Harry Allen's All Star New York Saxophone Band: The Candy Men

The arranger-saxophonist Harry Allen's assertively velvety sax-led band with heavyweights Eric Alexander and Gary Smulyan hits all the right notes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016