Grant Green: Racing Green

Anthologising Green's work on various labels and with different bands (his own and others') from 1959-62, this is a good...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Pat Martino: Nexus

Pat Martino | Jim Ridl

Here's a treat that's emerged from out the shadows. A rarity in that it captures Martino in duo mode, it's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015

Joey Alexander: My Favourite Things

It's hard to separate the massive interest – it comes with Herbie Hancock's endorsement among others – in this Indonesian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Alex Sipiagin: Balance 38-58

Matt Brewer | Alex Sipiagin | Adam Rogers | John Escreet | David Binney | Eric Harland

This is as good an example of this kind of contemporary New York jazz as you'll find anywhere. There's terrific...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2015

Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith

One of the oddest pairings of the 1950s, this has Smith playing rather horribly amplified violin alongside Diz, with a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

George Russell: Complete 1956-1960 Smalltet and Orchestra Recordings

Alan Kiger | Barry Galbraith | Milt Hinton | Benny Golson | Max Roach | Charlie Persip | Bob Brookmeyer | George Russell | Art Farmer | Bill Evans

It would have made chronological sense if this had arrived before Fresh Sound's 1960-62 Sextets reissue (reviewed last month) but...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2015

Kenny Burrell: Kenny Burrell/Swingin'

1950s Burrell from two of his earliest Blue Note albums, and despite the stellar groups, the highpoint is an unaccompanied...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Lawrence D. ‘Butch’ Morris: Possible Universe (Conduction 192)

On Ka'a Davis | Lawrence D. ‘Butch’ Morris | Silvia Bolognesi | David Murray | Jean-Paul Bourelly | Greg Ward | Meg Montgomery | Chad Taylor | Harrison Bankhead | Pasquale Innarella

A lot of ink has been spilled about the originality of the late Morris' principle of conduction – the conducting...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2015

Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Wolfgang Lackerschmid | Tony Williams | Buster Williams | Chet Baker | Larry Coryell | Gunter Lenz | Rocky Knauer | Nicola Stlo | Peri dos Santos | Edir dos Santos

Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015

Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Sam Bell | Dominic J Marshall | Sam Gardner | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Vicary

Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015