JATP: Live at Carnegie Hall – September 17, 1955

Also out from Fresh Sound, this is three Verve LPs in one set, with all the usual suspects: Diz and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Roberto Ottaviano: Astrolabio

Featuring the revered clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi and tuba-ist Michel Godard, Ottaviano’s chamber quartet offer a delightfully impassioned mix of free...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

The Sackville All Stats: Saturday Night Function

One of Sackville’s fine early 1980s jam sessions from Toronto, featuring Buddy Tate and Jim Galloway blowing through standards with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Snowpoet

Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Lauren Kinsella | Chris Hyson | Nicholas Costley-White | Matthew Robinson

Soft-focus songs with poetic pretentions, as suggested in the group’s name and the inclusion of W. B. Yeats and Sylvia...

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

Eddie Palmieri: La Perfecta/El Molesto

This is the origin of a latin legend, with Palmieri’s first albums under his own name, his bright piano complementing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Dolo Coker: California Hard

Dolo Coker | Leroy Vinnegar | Art Pepper | Frank Butler | Blue Mitchell

Two important points are made here. As the title suggests, the West Coast was never reducible to ‘cool’ or rather,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

Stan Getz & Chet Baker Quartet: Live At The Haig 1953

Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Stan Getz | Larry Bunker

These unheard tapes have languished in the Pacific Jazz vaults since 1953, but the last few years have seen dribs...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Benny Goodman: The Complete Benny In Brussels

Originally out on Columbia, and most recently reissued by Avid, this 1958 World’s Fair set by a latterday Goodman band...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Michel Benita & Ethics: River Silver

Matthieu Michel | Philippe Garcia | Mieko Miyazaki | Michel Benita | Eivind Aarset

“I originally wanted to see if I could bring the koto into a more or less ‘traditional’ set-up with guitar,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2016

Cyrille Aimée: Let’s Get Lost

Rajiv Jayaweera | Adrien Moignard | Cyrille Aimée | Michael Valeanu | Sam Anning

A previous finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition, and winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2016