Larry Young: In Paris: The Complete ORTF Recordings

Jackie Bamboo | Franco Manzecchi | Larry Young | Jacques Hess | Woody Shaw | Nathan Davis | Billy Brooks

The discovery of previously unheard/unreleased tapes from the dim and distant past by the often-deceased movers and shakers of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Nat King Cole: Rosetta

Another in the 3CD Jazz Characters set; this is a fine snapshot of Cole's career, with the tipping point between...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Bryan Corbett Quartet: Message of Iridescence

Bryan Corbett | Neil Bullock | Ben Markland | Al Gurr

Since the start of the millennium, the Birmingham-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Bryan Corbett has been marking his territory somewhere between the soundworlds...

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

Viktor Toth: Climbing With Mountains

Ferenc Kovacs | Viktor Toth | Matyas Szandai | Hamid Drake | Peter Pallai

Alto saxophonist Toth led an organ trio at the final showcase of Hungarian jazz at the recent EJN conference in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Kenny Clarke: Plays The Arrangements of Hodeir, Chevallier, Michelot and Boland

A snapshot of Parisian jazz in the 1950s, Hodeir's charts are suffused with classical ideas, Michelot's swing instinctively, Chevallier's are...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Weather Report: The Legendary Tapes – 1978-1981

Jaco Pastorius | Wayne Shorter | Robert ‘Bobby’ Thomas | Peter Erskine | Joe Zawinul

On paper the titles here are very familiar, with numerous live releases covering the ‘Jaco Pastoius years’, and yet there's...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Billy Cobham: Album Interview: The Atlantic Years 1973-1978

Tommy Bolin | Garnett Brown | John Scofield | Walt Fowler | George Duke | Milcho Leviev | Richard Davis | Randy Brecker | Billy Cobham | Michael Brecker

A plush box of the seven albums Cobham cut in a flourish of creativity following his days with the Mahavishnu...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Philip Clouts Quartet: Umoya

Alex Keen | Philip Clouts | Dave Ingamells | Samuel Eagles

The freedom of jazz and the rootedness of world music – those are the twin inspirations of Philip Clouts, South...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn

This is one of the albums Dexter cut during his 1955 release from prison, and while not in the same...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Vyacheslav Ganelin, Alexey Kruglov, Oleg Yudanov: Russian New Music in China: Live In Shenzhen

Alexey Kruglov | Oleg Yudanov | Vyacheslav Ganelin

It all began with a phone call, the cooking of borsch and a mysterious guest with, we are told in...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016