Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz: Awakening of a Capital

It says here this Scottish sax-bass-drums trio are ‘developing the crossroads between free jazz and doom/sludge rock’ and it's hard...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Steve Lacy: Four Morning Joy Paris Live

Oliver Johnson | Jean-Jacques Avenel | Steve Potts | Steve Lacy

Recent reissues of the soprano legend in quartets in the early 1960s (Rudd, Grimes, Harris), show how well suited he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Bud Powell: Live At The Blue Note Café, Paris 1961

Bud Powell | Kenny Clarke | Pierre Michelot | Zoot Sims

This is hardly comparable to the sensational Birdland 1953 set reissued last year (and reviewed in Jazzwise 185) but well...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2015

Joanna Wallfisch: The Origin of Adjustable Things

Joanna Wallfisch | Dan Tepfer

Hailing from a family of professional musicians, the young singer songwriter Joanna Wallfisch recently relocated from London to New York...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Stanley Cowell: Are You Real?

Jay Anderson | Billy Drummond | Stanley Cowell

Although the recent Strata East celebration at the Barbican centre has significantly raised the profile of the pianist (and co-founder...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Cathy's Summer

Darius Brubeck | Matt Ridley | Dave O'Higgins | Wesley Gibbens

Some eternal values remain, not the least the benign influence of Dave Brubeck through his accomplished clan. Featuring eight of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2015

Claus Ogerman/Michael Brecker: Cityscape

Three orchestral crossover pieces and a three-movement suite by Ogerman make up this showcase for Brecker's early 1980s soloing, stamping...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Tammy Payne: Viva Outsider

Having made an album of covers on Edition Records in 2010, vocalist Tammy Payne turns to her own sixties-inspired acoustic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth by Day

Thomas Wydler | Cassandra Wilson | Kevin Breit | T Bone Burnett | Joe Cowherd | Nick Zinner | Martyn P Casey

Just as Wilson's move to Blue Note records from JMT in 1993 saw her reinvent herself under the aegis of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Steve Turre: Spiritman

Gerald Cannon | Chembo Corniel | Bruce Williams | Steve Turre | Willie Jones III | Xavier Davis

Smoke Sessions' second studio album features the often underrated Turre, usually a HighNote artist, and a very blues-conscious band playing...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2015