Louis Armstrong: Live In Paris, 24 April 1962

Recorded at the Olympia, this is a standard-fare All Stars concert, but with a great sense of occasion, given the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

Livio Minafra – Louis Moholo-Moholo: Born Free

Livio Minafra | Louis Moholo-Moholo

There’s no disputing that Louis Moholo-Moholo’s right foot used to be one of the most furiously explosive appendages in avant-...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2016

Jack Bruce & The HR Big Band: More Jack Than Blues

Jack Bruce

There are many ways to remember Bruce, and this CD/DVD combo isn’t the worst place to start. A year or...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016

Graham Bond: Live At The BBC And Other Stories

Joe Palin Trio | Graham Bond | Ginger Baker | Mike Falana | Pete Brown | Duffy Power | Don Rendell | Ken Wray | Johnny Burch | Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce once revealed that in reality Cream was the Ornette Coleman Trio, but neither he or Ginger Baker ever...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016

William Embling and Anthony Barnett: The Lion In The Grove

Anthony Barnett | William Embling

Recorded in Bristol in 1980 with Wadada Leo Smith in the audience (hence the ‘leo’ part of the title), the...

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

Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live in Bern

Tamir Hendelman | Scott Hamilton | Jeff Hamilton | Christof Luty

Scott Hamilton clearly enjoys linking up with sympathetic companions whenever and wherever they appear. Here he teams up with namesake...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

Corrie Dick: Impossible Things

Joe Webb | | Laura Jurd | Joe Wright | Matt Robinson | Corrie Dick | George Crowley | Felix Higginbottom | Conor Chaplin

Corrie Dick could be seen with his Chaos Collective co-founders Laura Jurd and Elliot Galvin this year, helping take Jurd’s...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2016

Ernestine Anderson: Four Classic Albums

Anderson is a much-neglected US singer whose excellent work here with the big bands of Ernie Wilkins, Pete Rugulo and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Teemu Åkerblom: Quartet

This new album from the upcoming Finnish bassist's quartet is a mostly fiery hard swinging dose of 1960s hard bop,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Thomas Maintz/Aaron Parks: Duets in June

A former nominee in the 2009 Danish Music awards, the guitarist Thomas Maintz is joined by recent ECM contemporary pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2016