Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg: Dialogue

Ben Goldberg | Myra Melford

Myra Melford is a pianist, composer and Guggenheim fellow inspired by Jaki Byard, Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill – not...

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

Lou Levy: A Most Musical Fella

A fine pianist, a great trio (with Max Bennett and Stan Levey) and a repertoire largely consisting of standards, this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Eric Gale: Blue Horizon

Hugh Masekela | Neddy Smith | Eric Gale | Winston Grennan | Nasser Nasser | Peter Schott | Freddie Waits | Mark Mazur

Blue Horizon found Gale producing himself for the first time, and hand picking the musicians around him. So it's interesting...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

Ray Bryant: Little Susie

A good counterpart to Plays, the album reviewed here last month of Bryant's early Signature recordings, this is his 1959/60...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Aldevis Tibaldi/London Jazz Ensemble: Twentysix Three

Aldevis Tibaldi | Chris Gale | Liam Dunachie | Paul Taylor | John Eacott | Richard Sadler

This sleekly-conceived, coolly- executed disc from London-based, Italian-born saxophonist Aldevis Tibaldi is something of a throwback a very welcome throwback,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2016

The Gary Burton Quartet with Orchestra: A Genuine Tong Funeral

Gary Burton | Howard Johnson | Jimmy Knepper | Larry Coryell | Carla Bley | Lonesome Dragon | Steve Lacy | Steve Swallow | Gato Barbieri | Mike Mantler

Heartening that Sony Music are delving into their huge archives for material other than that by Miles Davis. This CD...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2016

Don Byas: New York/Paris 1938-55

The kind of anthology at which Frémeaux excels, this has rightly won an award in France as a potted history...

Reviewed by Ayn Shipton in issue: June/2016

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix

Gil Evans | Billy Harper | Ryo Kawasaki | David Sanborn | Hannibal Marvin Peterson

The glimpse of Gil Evans in Don Cheadle’s contentious Miles Ahead is an important reference for the aficionado and layperson...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016

Stian Westerhus: Amputation

Stian Westerhus

Didymoi Dreams, Westerhus’s 2013 collaboration with vocalist Sidsel Endresen was as uncompromising and forbidding as Norwegian jazz gets. This solo...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2016

IF: If5

Rod Brown | Guy Gardner | Ben Taylor | Terry Smith | Dave Browne | Dave Quincy

All credit to Quincy and Smith for keeping the flame alive, their revival last year of If (or is it...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016