Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Miles Davis | Don Alias | Lenny White | Dave Holland | Harvey Brooks | Wayne Shorter | Chick Corea | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Zawinul

Just for the record, 2010 was the 40th Anniversary year of Bitches Brew, you haven't woken up in a time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Sidney Bechet: In Switzerland

Henri Chaix | Happy Cauldwell | Roger Benz | Pierre Dervaux | Pierre Braslavsky | Jean-Marie Ingrand | Roger Kara | Claude Luter | Jelly Roll Morton | René Franc

For many years after his death Sidney Bechet continued to be regarded as a demi-god in the French-speaking world. This...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2015

Dizzy Gillespie: Live At Ronnie Scott's Vol.1

Mike Longo | Earl May | Mickey Roker | Dizzy Gillespie | Al Gafa

Unlike say Miles, Dizzy didn't feel the need to reinvent himself, for in cahoots with Bird, Bud, Klook and Monk...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015

John Raymond: Foreign Territory

A New York trumpeter with a quartet including veteran drummer Billy Hart, Lee Konitz's pianist Dan Tepfer and bassist Joe...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Billy Jenkins: Death, Ritual and Resonation

Billy Jenkins

Like Leadbelly's 12-string or Blind Willie Johnson's knifed slide, Jenkins has found his voice in the low strung guitar. Not...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015

Ken Peplowski & Alan Barnes: At The Watermill

Ken Peplowski | John Pearce | Alan Barnes | Dave Green | Steve Brown

This is the third pairing of these two reedmen to appear on Barnes’ own label. Having lately heard them in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015

Jason Seizer: Cinema Paradiso

This German pianist goes to Hollywood with Enrico Morricone, Leonard Bernstein through to Alexandre Desplat among the composers given the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Jon Regen: Stop Time

A former pianist turned singer-songwriter numbers Billy Joel and Randy Newman among his infl uences with a band that includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Crump/Halvorson Secret Keeper: Emerge

Fresh sounds from an atmospheric postrock infl uenced New York duo of Vijay Iyer bassist Stephan Crump and quirkily experimental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Liam Noble: A Room Somewhere

Liam Noble

In the age of music downloads, is it worth even thinking about cover art anymore, never mind discussing it in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015