The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond: The Complete Storyville Broadcasts

Joe Dodge | Wyatt Ruther | Paul Desmond | Bob Bates | Ron Crotty | Lloyd Davis | Dave Brubeck | Herb Barman

The three CDs that comprise The Complete Storyville Broadcasts were recorded between February 1952 and July 1954. Thus they contain...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

Olivia's Owls: Moments Arriving

The bassist-composer Hedi Pinkerfield's quartet might have been influenced by composers Faure and Scriabin, but the new CD also has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Tore Brunborg: Slow Snow

Tore Brunborg | Per Oddvar Johansen | Steinar Raknes | Eivind Aarset

Although the liner notes do not mention it, Brunborg was a member of the ground breaking Norwegian band Masqualero that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

Jan Prax Quartet: Keepin' A Style Alive

Part of this prominent Euro jazz label's ‘Young German Jazz’ series, this is one of the better showcases of young...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox

Jake Goldbas | Allan Harris | Pascal Le Boeuf | Samuel Torres | Yotam Silberstein | Leon Boykins

A three-time winner of the New York Nightlife Award for ‘Outstanding Jazz Vocalist’, and named by Tony Bennett as ‘my...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Joe Stilgoe: New Songs for Old Souls

Tom Farmer | Joe Stilgoe | Billy Adamson | Ben Reynolds

In the hands of a lesser artist, New Songs for Old Souls could well have ended up being a brilliantly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Bob Gingery: Travel

Featuring the 2008 Thelonious Monk award-winning saxophone firebrand Jon Irabagon in slightly more relaxed mode, the bassist Gingerly's quartet play...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Dave Stryker: Messin' With Mister T

A homage to tough R&B-jazz tenor Stanley Turrentine by guitarist Dave Stryker's organ trio boosted by its galaxy of sax...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Jean-Michel Pilc: Solo Piano

Jean-Michel Pilc

The latest from French-born, US-resident Pilc is unusual, to say the least. With 31 tracks in 68 minutes, some of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2015

Steve Fishwick Group: The Outer Periphery

Matt Fishwick | Tom Cawley | Ross Stanley | Steve Fishwick | Tim Thornton | Alex Garnett

Much of Fishwick's work on Hard Bop has been with the retro quintet he co-leads with tenorist Osian Roberts, which...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2015