The Jazzfakers: Hallucinations

Ever wondered what jazz would sound like performed under the influence of hallucinogenics? Try this CD out for size from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Cuong Vu Trio: Meets Pat Metheny

Cuong Vu | Stomu Takeishi | Ted Poor | Pat Metheny

Cuong Vu and Metheny have danced around each other for years, but this is the first time Metheny has played...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

Sextet of Orchestra USA: Mack The Knife

Mainly this gets its star rating because of Eric Dolphy and Jerome Richardson's dazzling saxophone playing, and this overcomes the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Bud Powell: Strictly Powell

Bud Powell | George Duvivier | Art Taylor

It's gratifying that, in mining the large RCA jazz archive, the reissuers even thought of including Powell, but rather depressing...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2016

Ivo Perelman/Shipp/Bisio/Dickey: Soul

Joe Morris | Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Whit Dickey | Karl Berger | Michael Bisio | Gerald Cleaver

Another batch of releases reflects the unflagging faith that the Brazilian saxophonist has in his patented modus operandi. His ensembles...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2016

Gerardo Núñez & Ulf Wakenius: Logos

Cancun | Gerardo Núñez | Carmen Cortés | Isabel Núñez | Ulf Wakenius | Cepillo

Back in 1992, the very first release from Siggi Loch's ACT label was Jazzpañ a, which brought the foremost practitioners...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2016

Noah Preminger: Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground

Noah Preminger | Kim Cass | Jason Palmer | Ian Froman

Southern Blues devotees will recognise the title of the Blind Willie Johnson masterpiece, and if that whets the appetite then...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2016

Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud

Barry Guy | Percy Pursglove | Torben Snekkestad | Ben Dwyer | Michel Godard | Lucas Niggli | Per Texas Johansson | Savina Yannatou | Julius Gabriel | Ramón López

Barry Guy's arresting epic, The Blue Shroud, draws its inspiration from a polemical curtain closer, a censoring veil thrown over...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2016

Time Piece: Misbehavin’

A quaintly entertaining jazz-folk cabaret vocal quartet based in South West England with lyrics exploring the march of time and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Jane Monheit: The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald

Nicholas Payton | Daniel Sadownick | Jane Monheit | Rick Montalbano | Neal Miner | Michael Kanan

Beginning with a luxuriant reading of the Duke Ellington/Carl Sigman song, ‘All Too Soon’, this exceptional tribute to Ella Fitzgerald...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2016