Gerry Mulligan/Ben Webster: Mulligan Meets Webster

Originally in Verve's Mulligan Meets… series, this stands alone as a highlight of both saxophonists' catalogues, with a heartfelt ‘Chelsea...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Charlie Christian: Live with the Benny Goodman Sextet/Solo Flight

An exact clone of the Definitive album of the same name reviewed here in 2008, it's the majority of Christian's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Ella Fitzgerald: Live in Paris 1957-62

An aural snapshot album of Ella – six concerts done at the height of her latter-day powers, excellently recorded at...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm: Robin Goodie

Zhenya Strigalev | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Larry Grenadier | Ambrose Akinmusire | Taylor Eigisti | Eric Harland

“Hi, my name is Robin Goodie,” alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev declares in the middle of the title track in a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Larry Carlton

Classic late 1970s fusion from guitarist Carlton, of which the toe-tapping ‘Rio Samba’ strays creatively into latin territory to be...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Ray Charles: Genius + Jazz = Soul/Genius of Ray Charles

Two classic albums originally on Impulse! and Atlantic that put Ray with members of the Basie and Ellington bands with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Courtney Pine: Song (The Ballad Book)

Zoe Rahman | Courtney Pine

If House of Legends was the most danceable album Courtney Pine has ever produced, this successor to it is the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Nina Simone: Just Cares For You: Her Best Songs

The Malcom Dodds Singers orchestra | Jimmy Bond | Nina Simone | Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath

Diehard Nina Simone fans will doubtless already have all of the recordings from which the 68 tracks of Just Cares...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015

The Howard Riley Trio: Angle/The Day Will Come

Barry Guy | Alan Jackson | Howard Riley

Released respectively in 1969 and 1970, these two albums were always seen by pianist Howard Riley as a pair. Now,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2015

Engines Orchestra + Phil Meadows Group: Lifecycles

Emily Davis | Laura Jurd | Phil Meadows | Kirsty Lovie | Matt Maguire | Tori Handsley | James Davison | Simon Roth | Katherine Waller | Zosia Jagodzinska

Phil Meadows is a young Bolton-born jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger with big ideas. Only two years out of London's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015