Tina May: My Kinda Love

Winston Clifford | Ian Laws | John Pearce | Tina May | Freddie Gavita | Frank Griffth | Dave Green

This new album from the outstanding vocalist Tina May serves almost like a second act to her previous Hep Jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2015

Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969

Tubby Hayes | Brian Smith | Louis Stewart | Harry Klein | Les Condon | Greg Bowen | Ron Mathewson | Bill Geldard | Peter King | Keith Christie

It has long been the ambition of many jazz musicians to either lead their own big band or record with...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2015

Martin Speake with Oren Marshall and Mark Sanders: The Quiet Mind

Mark Sanders | Martin Speake | Oren Marshall

Recorded live at The Oxford in Kentish Town, London, back in autumn 2008, this set of three free-improv tunes hasn't...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2015

James Moody: Cookin' the Blues/Another Bag

Moody's early 1960s comeback, after losing almost everything in a disastrous fire, these Argo albums won't set the world alight,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Freddie Hubbard: Ride Like the Wind

Freddie's funk-meets-the-orchestra period from the 1980s is not to everyone's taste, but this is THE album to have from that...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

Jason Roebke Octet: High Red Center

Alongside a Chicago crew of superb improvisers including Jason Adasiewicz, and Jeb Bishop, bassist Roebke channels the ghost of Sun...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Gov't Mule/John Scofield: Sco Mule

A 2-CD live set of hard groovin' funky jam band blues by a veteran guitar trio who're joined by a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Cool

Frank Chastenier | Jukka Perko | Wolfgang Haffner | Christopher Dell | Nils Landgren | Dusko Goykovich | Christian von Kaphengst | Jan Lungdren | Max Mutzke | Dan Berglund

In 2008 Haffner came up with a minor masterpiece for the ACT label in Acoustic Shapes that seemed to capture...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Wild Flower Sextet: Wild Flower

Laura Jurd | Alex Munk | Sam Gardner | Matt Anderson | Jamil Sheriff | Sam Vicary

With their band moniker lifted from a Wayne Shorter composition off Speak No Evil, saxophonist Matt Anderson's Wild Flower Sextet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Andy Sheppard: Surrounded by Sea

Andy Sheppard | Michel Benita | Eivind Aarset | Seb Rochford

British saxophonist Andy Sheppard's third album for ECM marks the next stage in the musical evolution of his Trio Libero,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015