Geir Sundstøl: Furulund

Geir Sundstøl | David Wallumrød (kys) | Erland Dahlen | Michael Blair

Norwegian guitarist Sundstøl has already enjoyed a highly successful career as a session musician, working with Nils Petter Molvær and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2015

Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Trio: The Complete 1972 Berlin Jazz Concert

Gerry Mulligan | Paul Desmond | Jack Six | Dave Brubeck | Alan Dawson

The Mulligan, Desmond, Brubeck package toured Europe in October/November 1972, resulting in the album Together Again for the First Time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

Dinah Washington: Back to the Blues

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington singing the blues is one of the most life-affirming sounds in music, and this reissue from Poll Winners...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2015

Vula Viel: Good is Good

Simon Roth | Dave De Rose | Jim Hart | Dan Nicholls | George Crowley | Stephen Bure | Bex Burch

Learning hand-to-hand triplets on the djembe before studying classical percussion at the Guildhall, the Yorkshire-born Bex Burch had set off...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Rita Reys: The Cool Voice of…

An excellent collection by this now rather forgotten fi gure in Dutch jazz, of which the highlight is a 1956...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2015

Tubby Hayes and the Downbeat Big Band: Blues at the Manor 1959-1960

Tubby Hayes | Johnny Scott | Jimmy Deuchar | Victor Feldman | Alan Branscombe | Keith Christie | Jeff Clyne | Ronnie Scott | Phil Seaman | Terry Shannon

The big band represents a continuing theme in Tubby Hayes discography. At the age of 20 he was recording as...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

Joel Harrison 5: Spirit House

Kermit Driscoll | Paul Hanson | Cuong Vu | Brian Blade | Joel Harrison

Despite 2014’s Mother Stump yielding decidedly mixed results, its inspired arrangement of Paul Motian's ‘Folk Song For Rosie’ showed off...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2015

Stefano Battaglia Trio: In The Morning

Salvatore Maiore | Roberto Dani | Stefano Battaglia

“To me Alec Wilder represents the home of American music in the largest sense,” says Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia by...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2015

Bobby Bradford and John Carter Quintet: No U-Turn – Live in Pasadena 1971

Technically a new issue, this is the earliest example of Carter and Bradford playing live together, exemplifying their LA work...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2015

Dominique Pifarely: Time Before and Time After

This French violinist has recorded with Louis Sclavis, Stefano Battaglia and Mike Westbrook among others but he's on his own...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015