Modern Jazz Quartet: The Comedy/Lonely Woman

More of the MJQ's Atlantic catalogue, this pairing's mainly notable for John Lewis's haunting (but entirely tonal) reworking of Ornette's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2015

Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde

Brandon Seabrook | Mary Halvorson | Jacob Garchik | Jonathan Goldberger | Vinnie Sperrazza

Jacob Garchik is a New Yorkbased multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who has worked with Lee Konitz, Henry Threadgill, John Hollenbeck...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: October/2015

Schnellertollermeier: X

A Swiss Underground alt. rock trio that bring prog jazz and minimalist elements to their dense, driving sound....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Jon Cleary: GoGo Juice

Danny Sadownick | Jon Cleary | Terence Higgins | Shane Theriot | Calvin Turner | featuring The Dirty Dozen Horns | Nigel Hall

A long time part of Bonnie Raitt's band, and a fine contributor to Rickie Lee Jones’ current and superb album,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015

Album Interview: Georgie Fame: The Whole World's Shaking Complete Recordings 1963-1966

Dick Morrissey | Stan Tracey | Georgie Fame | Colin Green | Gordon Beck | John McLaughlin

A handsome five-disc package of all things Fame, including the re-mastered albums Fame At Last, the Motown influenced Sweet Thing,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015

Wayne Horvitz: Some Places are Forever Afternoon

Sara Schoenbeck | Ron Miles | Keith Lowe | Wayne Horvitz | Peggy Lee | Tim Young | Eric Eagle

The keyboardist-composer Wayne Horvitz is perhaps best known for his work on the mid-1980’s genre-blurring, vanguardist New York downtown scene,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Simians of Swing

Saleem Raman | Luca Boscagin | Andy Davies | Polly Gibbons | Sam Leak | Benet Mclean | Ivo Neame | Ant Law | Benet McLean

For those who frequent Ronnie Scott's upstairs jams on a Wednesday, the trumpeter Andy Davies will be a familiar face....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris Jazzwi in issue: October/2015

Zrazy: Dream On

A Dublin-based female vocal/piano duo in the lineage of such affecting jazzy singer-songwriters as Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Crawford and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Mavis Rivers: The Capitol Years 1959-60

Samoan-born Rivers had a lovely voice that lent itself to seductive love-songs, and here with natty charts from Nelson Riddle...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2015

Eliane Correa & En El Aire Project: Rumba con Flores

Gerardo de Armas | Greg Sanders | Jorge Ivan Martin | Frank Portuondo | Jimmy Martinez | Binisa Bonner | Yanaysa Prieto | Ernesto Simpson | Landy Diaz | Leo Power

An ambitious project, this one: an album recorded in Havana and London with a sprawling, cream-of-the-crop collective. A cross-cultural creation...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2015