Cleveland Watkiss: Song Diasporas

Larry Bartley | Jonathan Gee | Steve Williamson | Cleveland Watkiss

While his considerable development of Jazz Warriors International, both as a programmer-mentor and performer, has taken up a fair amount...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2016

The Larry Young Trio: Testifying/Young Blues/Forrest Fire/Groove Street

Jimmie Smith | Wendell Marshall | Larry Young | Jimmy Forrest | Bill Leslie | Thornel Schwartz

This is a musical portrait of the artist as a young man – Larry Young at age 20 on Testifying,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2016

Ran Blake: Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note

An original – occasionally eccentric – pianist, Blake is a supreme miniaturist, at his best here in duos with Jaki...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

Various Artists: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue

Miles Davis | Gerry Mulligan | Jelly Roll Morton | Bud Powell | Thelonious Monk | Chet Baker | Erroll Garner | Red Norvo | Stan Getz | Charlie Parker

This wide-ranging curio goes back to the early days of microgroove, via a famous French label (though most of the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Max Roach: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Andrew Hill | Rufus Reid | Alan Silva | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Ben Riley

Max Roach, in cahoots with Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey rewrote the modern jazz drumming rule book back in the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016

Joey DeFrancesco: Trip Mode

Joey DeFrancesco | Dan Wilson | Joey Defrancesco | Jason Brown

DeFrancesco can play the organ as well as anybody – he has the discography, the awards and the full calendar...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: February/2016

George Lewis: The George Lewis Solo Trombone Record

George Lewis

Solo horn recordings were fairly rare when these four tracks were recorded, back in 1976, for trombone players in particular....

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

Kanin Allyson: Many a New Day

Allyson is an all American mainstream jazz singer of a classy pedigree, a quality hardly lacking in her trio of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2016

Eivind Aarset: I.E.

Jan Bangs | Audun Erlien | Wetle Holte | Eivind Aarset | Erland Dahlen

Like the Crims in the days of Muir and Bruford, Aarset’s massive compositions profit from Holte and Dahlen’s contrasting percussions,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016

Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints – Live

Daniel Goyone | Minh Doky | Trilok Gurtu

Trilok Gurtu’s discography is not short of great moments. A consummate percussionist whose music is conceptualised around the ethos of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2016