Mike Mainieri: Wanderlust

All the Mainieri associates of the dawn of the 1980s are here – Mike Brecker, Peter Erskine, Don Grolnick, Marcus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Louis Moholo-Moholo Quartet: 4 Blokes

Louis Moholo-Moholo | John Edwards | Alexander Hawkins | Jason Yarde

Charmingly self-deprecating as the title may be, it cannot play down a self-evident truth: the four men in question are...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

Sun Ra: Refections In Blue/Hours After/Mayan Temples/A Tribute To Stuff Smith

Andrew Cyrille | Thomas Hunter | Michael Ray | Carl LeBlanc | Sun Ra | June Tyson | James Jackson | Jothan Callins | Ronald Wilson | John Ore

Interspersed with such alien sound attacks as ‘Prelude To Stargazers’, ‘Dance Of The Extra Terrestrials’ and a truly hypnotic ‘I...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2015

Werner/Loueke/Zenón/Koppel/Nemeth: Coalition

Miguel Zenón | Kenny Werner | Benjamin Koppel | Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke

This is an interesting record. But then Kenny Werner always makes interesting records. This is his eighth for the Half...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975

Mike Lawrence | Mike Mandel | Larry Coryell | John Lee | Aphonse Mouzon

The 1970s were heady days for jazz-rock and Coryell in particular. Feted worldwide, this is a live recording grabbed from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Lukas Ligeti/Thollem McDonas Duo: Imaginary Images

Son of the influential avant garde composer, György Ligeti, percussionist Lukas Ligeti and pianist Thollem McDonas play free improv in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Henry Mancini: Playboy Themes

Only a handful of tracks from Peter Gunn (and those were better done elsewhere by Shelly Manne) make this any...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Yusef Lateef: Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42 30-Longitude 83

Yusef Lateef

Such is the association of the late multi-instrumentalist and restless seeker of universal musical knowledge with what is often called...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

Louis Hayes: Return of the Jazz Communicators

Steve Nelson | David Bryant | Abraham Burton | Dezron Douglas | Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes has been firing up the modern mainstream ever since he joined Horace Silver's quintet in 1956 – Cannonball...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2015

Jan Johansson/Rune Gustafsson: When the Sun Comes Out

The best selling jazz record in Sweden by some distance is none of your usual suspects – Kind of Blue,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020