Al Jarreau: We Got By

Al Jarreau | Tom Canning | Joe Correro | Paul Stallworth

Released in 1975 and featuring string and horn arrangements by Dave Grusin, Al Jarreau's critically acclaimed and entirely self-penned debut...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family

A seminal Bridgewater album, with backing vocals and strings, but with producer Stanley Clarke and friends ensuring that the ‘family’...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Joe Lovano | Dave Douglas | Lina Oh

There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Michael O'Neill & Kenny Washington: New Beginnings

Old school versions of standards by Bay area saxophonist Michael O'Neill that were designed for the veteran New Orleans native...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Sun Ra And Intergalactic Research Arkestra: It's After The End Of The World

Danny Davis | Sun Ra | Marshall Allen | Pat Patrick | John Gilmore

Recorded in front of an appreciative (and possibly astonished) German audience at the 1970 Donaueschinger Jazz Days and Berlin Jazz...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: May/2015

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs From Thessaloniki

This ethereal Greek vocalist's fourth ECM recording is dedicated to Thessaloniki, once known as the ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans’, with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Roberto Ottaviano: Forgotten Matches: The Worlds Of Steve Lacy

Cristiano Calcagnile | Giovanni Maier | Alexander Hawkins | Roberto Ottaviano | Glenn Ferris

Brave enough to set himself the by no means easy task of performing the music of Steve Lacy, one of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Freddie Redd: Music For You

Jay Anderson | Freddie Redd | Billy Drummond

What a nice surprise! After an absence of 30 years from the recording studios, here's the legendary Freddie Redd, now...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2015

The Eddie Myer 5tet: Why Worry?

Ian Price | Eddie Myer | Tristan Banks | Luke Rattenbury | Frank Harrison

Never available on CD before, Myer's album has been released in tribute to sax man Ian Price. Price, a stalwart...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015

Ray Gelato And The Giants: Original Flavours

Sebastiaan de Krom | Oli Hayhurst | Sebastiaan De Krom | Anders Janes | Danny Marsden | Ollie Wilby | Andy Rogers | Alex Garnett | Gunther Kurmayr | Ray Gelato

Bandleader Ray Gelato has been earning his daily crust for many years with his Giants, touring widely, their music and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015