Tassos Spiliotopoulos: In The North

This is the Greek guitarist's third album but first since relocating to Stockholm from London. His Swedish quartet perform a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Lester Young: Complete Live At The Argyle 1950

Lester Young | Kenny Drew | Jessie Drake | Joe Shulman | Jo Jones

As Lester Young entered the last decade of his often turbulent life, it became obvious that he was in decline...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016

James P Johnson: Classic James P Johnson Sessions (1921-1943)

Cecil Scott | J.C. Higginbotham | Clara Smith | Fats Waller | Arthur Whetsel | King Oliver | James P Johnson | Ida Cox | Gene Sedric | Frankie Newton

The granddaddy of jazz piano – mentor of Fats Waller and hero to Thelonious Monk – has received a worthy...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016

Stan Getz/Bob Brookmeyer: Recorded Fall 1961

Steve Kuhn | Bob Brookmeyer | Stan Getz | Jimmy Garrison | Roy Haynes | John Neves

The eligibility of this album for the Poll Winners label shows that its warm welcome in 1962 was perhaps exaggerated...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016

Ameen Saleem: The Groove Lab

Mavis Swan Poole | Cyrus Chestnut | Stacy Dillard | Roy Hargrove | Jeremy Clemons | Craig Magnano | Ameen Saleem | Gregory Hutchinson | Ramona Dunlop

There’s nothing particularly experimental about this all-original set, but the tunes are good, the grooves are chunky and the solos...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2016

Sue McCreeth: Queer Bird

Subtitled ‘Elegant songs of England Born’, this peculiarly English jazz voice showcases a diverse set of songs from dear old...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

The People Band: Live At Cafe Oto

Maggie Nicols | Tony Marsh | Charlie Hart | Paul Jolly | Terry Day | Dave Chamber | Mike Figgis | Davey Payne | Ed Dean | Mel Davis

Recordings of this collective are as rare as a promise kept by a politician, so let’s savour this release from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016

Dakhla Brass: Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla

A Bristol-based band featuring Get the Blessing trumpeter Pete Judge pumping out fine meaty blasts of pan globalinfluenced brass, drawing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Motorpsycho: Here Be Monsters

Kenneth Kapstad | Thomas Henriksen | Bent Sæther | Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan

These heavy metal fruits get so stricken by the proggy bug that they can’t help but bounce out into propane-pulsing...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: April/2016

Nik Bärtsch Mobile: Continuum

Jesper Bodilsen | Anders Thorén | Espen Berg | Seamus Blake | Hayden Powell

Pianist-composer Bärtsch’s well- received Kings Place residency at last year’s London Jazz Festival provided an opportunity to hear a version...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2019