Henri Texier Quartet: La Compañera

Michel Marre | Jack Mahieux | Philippe De Schepper | Louis Sclavis | Henri Texier

Across the past five decades Henri Texier has helped to shape the developing aesthetic of European jazz. He's also performed...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2015

George Van Eps: Once In A While

The great swing guitarist's quartet demonstrates his mastery of integrating melody, chords and rhythm into one of the most complex...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Chris Connor: Free Spirits

With charts by Al Cohn and an all-star band with Joe Newman, Clark Terry and Phil Woods in its ranks,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Julia Hülsmann Quartet with Theo Bleckmann: A Clear Midnight: Kurt Weill and America

Marc Muellbauer | Heinrich Köbberling | Julia Hülsmann | Tom Arthurs | Theo Bleckmann

As her collaborations with Rebekka Bakken, Anna Lauvergnac and Roger Cicero demonstrate, whenever the Berlin-based pianist Julia Hülsmann works with...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2015

Ernestine Anderson: Swings the Penthouse

Never quite as celebrated as Carmen McRae or Betty Carter, Ernestine has outlived her contemporaries, and this 1962 session shows...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Hank Crawford: True Blue

Phil Guilbeau | John Hunt | Alexander Nelson | Julius Brooks | Charlie Patterson | Bruno Carr | Edgar Wills | Hank Crawford | Sonny Forrest | James Clay

Not to be confused with Madonna's album with the same title, this is basically Ray Charles' regular small band. For...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2015

Chris Connor: Misty

More M-O-R fare than Free Spirits these sessions from 1958-9 are less interesting to the jazz enthusiast than that CD...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Jeremy Pelt: Tales, Musings and other Reveries

Ben Allison | Simona Premazzi | Billy Drummond | Jeremy Pelt | Victor Lewis

Jeremy Pelt has got his groove – and direction – back. After two albums which my esteemed colleague Mike Hobart...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2015

The Button Band

Led by Bill Frisell-influenced, London-based guitarist-composer Andrew Button, The Button Band's melodious, easy-going debut draws from post-Loose Tubes world-jazz, country...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

VEIN featuring Dave Liebman: Jazz Talks

Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenez | Thomas Lähns | Dave Liebman

The perspicacious, peripatetic Dave Liebman's CDs of his latest collaborations from around the globe land on your desk these days...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015