Paul Gonsalves/Clark Terry Quintet: Complete Recordings

Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Stanley Turrentine | Paul Chambers | George Tucker | Art Taylor | Al Harewood | Tommy Flanagan

Moonlighting from the Ellington band, CT, Gonsalves, plus Messrs Woode and Woodyard created this fine collection from 1956-58 that’s only...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Al Escobar and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra: Escobar's Rhythmagic

The West Coast equivalent of his mentor Tito Puente, pianist Escobar led this popular band in Hollywood in the late...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia: The Last Fandango

Barbara Thompson | Billy Thompson | Jon Hiseman | Peter Lemer | Dave Ball

Thompson would only want her music judged on its merits but to not acknowledge her extraordinary story would be perverse....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016

Matthew Bourne: moogmemory

Matthew Bourne

We may know Matthew Bourne primarily as a pianist and composer, but his Radioland project also revealed his interest in...

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

Snarky Puppy: Family Dinner Vol.2

Chris Bullock | Charlie Hunter | Rachella Searight | Michael League | Genevieve Artadi | Chris Turner | Jay Jennings | Carlos Malta | Jeff Coffin | Larnell Lewis

Subtly is not a word often associated with bombastic Brooklynites Snarky Puppy, but the follow up to the Grammy Award...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2016

Carol Sloane: Out of the Blue/Live at 30th Street

With neat arrangements from Bob Brookmeyer and Bill Finegan, Sloane shows why she was one of the most popular acts...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016

John Coltrane Quartet: Complete 1963 Copenhagen Concert

Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

Another bootleg, no doubt – certainly not direct from the Danish Radio tapes, but from the broadcast that saw ‘Impressions’...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016

Carlberg/Moms/Niggenkempei/Gray: Cosmopolitan Greetings

A vigorous exercise in free jazz meets contemporary improv from a veteran quartet that features guitar legend Joe Morris and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Al Cohn/Dexter Gordon: True Blue/Silver Blue

Al Cohn | Dexter Gordon | Sam Jones | Barry Harris | Blue Mitchell | Sam Noto | Louis Hayes

Proper Gordon fans who remember the heyday of ‘The Chase’, his scintillating tenor battle with Wardell Gray, should well rejoice...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

J. J. Johnson: Mack The Knife/Trombone and Voices

This is worth it for the Kurt Weill set, in which J. J. is accompanied by Andre Previn, Red Mitchell...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2016