Jim Hall: In Berlin – It's Nice to Be With You

A beautiful, relaxed trio session, where the often unassuming Hall puts himself centre stage with Jimmy Woode and Daniel Humair...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Donald Byrd: And 125th Street

This is Byrd in 1979 in his crossover phase, full of backbeats and backing singers, with little of the glorious...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Steve Lacy: Quartet, Quintet Sextet, Octet: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Tina Wrase | Oliver Johnson | Roswell Rudd | Jean-Jacques Avenel | George Lewis | Han Bennink | Steve Potts | Misha Mengelberg | Kent Carter | Arjen Gorter

No greater sign of Steve Lacy's significance to the jazz aesthetic can be found than in the contrast between this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

Eddie Harris: High Voltage (Recorded Live At The Village Gate in New York and At Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood)

Jeff Beck | Rick Grech | Raymond Burrell | Chris Squire | Ian Paice | Zoot Money | Tony Kaye | Alan White | Lofty Amao | Stevie Winwood

As the 1960s morphed into the 1970s, jazz had to face the problem of appealing to a whole new generation...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2015

Elvin Jones Jazz Machine: Remembrance

Sam James | Mark Lockheart | Will Glaser | Tom Dennis | Joe Downard | Jessica Radcliffe

The short crisp press roll that sets up the opening track stamps Remembrance as an Elvin Jones album right from...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2019

Shorty Rogers: Clickin' With Clax

Recorded in 1956 but unissued till the 1970s this is a classic Rogers octet, with Geller, Holman, Shank and Giuffre...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Billy Bang & William Parker: Medicine Buddha

Billy Bang | William Parker

New York's Rubin Museum Of Art was the site for this sublime string summit, the resumption of an intuitive, spiritual...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2015

Jazzwerkstatt Wien New Ensemble: Sympathikus-Parasympathikus

An intriguingly diverse perspective on the experimental improv scene is provided by this German sextet (with Agnes Heginger on vocals)...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Danish Radio Big Band: A Good Time Was Had By All

Django Bates | Martial Solal | Bob Brookmeyer | Tony Coe | Art Farmer | Georgie Fame | Danish Radio Big Band | Phil Woods | Palle Mikkelborg | Jim McNeely

Years back I remember seeing the DRBB at Ronnie's, with Jim McNeely in charge. The playing was mightily impressive then...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2015

Emily Saunders: Outsiders Insiders

Byron Wallen | Emily Saunders | Trevor Mires | Jon Scott | Dave Whitford | Bruno Heinen

I was a huge fan of Emily Saunders' 2011 debut Cotton Skies, not least because it showcased an artist who...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015