Delfeayo Marsalis: The Last Southern Gentlemen

Ellis Marsalis | Delfeayo Marsalis | Marvin Smitty Smith | John Clayton | Herlin Riley

Cutting through the hype, the pretentious ‘social commentary’ of the liner notes, the sub-GCSE poems and short stories of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

The New Jazz Orchestra: Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe

Barbara Thompson | Harry Beckett | George Smith | Dave Gelly | Derek Watkins | Mike Gibbs | Tony Russell | Frank Ricotti | Henry Lowther | Jon Hiseman

To those in the know this band has long been regarded as one of the best, if not the best...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Steve Lacy: School Days Improvisations And Compositions By Thelonious Monk

Steve Lacy

In his sleeve notes Evan Parker recalls asking Steve Lacy's School Days band, a quartet of immense talent (Grimes, Rudd,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

Buddy Tate: Texas Tenor

In 1978 Tate was playing at his best, and with just piano, bass and drums he has the ideal showcase,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Garzone/Bergonzi/Winther/Aman/Mogensen: Quintonic

George Garzone | Carl Winther | Johnny Aman | Jerry Bergonzi | Anders Mogensen

In addition to being outstanding tenor saxophonists, both George Garzone and Jerry Bergonzi are highly respected educators and teachers. This...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

Puul Puul: Optical

Puul Puul is half the personnel – bassist Tim Harries and Norwegian electronica artist and percussionist Terje Evensen – of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

David Hazeltine: For All We Know

A contemporary swinging New York-based post-bop CD series, dedicated to vintage audio quality recording and featuring the pianist-leader's quartet including...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Joni Mitchell: Love Has Many Faces

Joni Mitchell

Traversing a period from Blue (1971) to her 2007 album Shine, this four-disc, artist-curated boxed set contains some of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2015

Marius Neset Quintet: Pinball

Anton Eger | Andreas Brantelid | Marius Neset | Jim Hart | Petter Eldh | Ivo Neame

Such are the superlatives surrounding Neset that's it's hard to place him: precocious yoof? Harbinger of a new generation? Or,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Euan Burton: Too Much Love

Euan Burton | Tom Gibbs | Adam Jackson | Alyn Cosker

Can you have too much love? Is that a thing? Composer/bassist Euan Burton clearly knew that I (and no doubt...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015