Mark Weinstein: Latin Jazz Underground

Roman Diaz | Mark Weinstein | Rashaan Carter | Gerald Cleaver | Aruán Ortiz

Mark Weinstein, who secured a PhD in Philosophy at City University of New York in 1973, has an astonishing background...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2014

Wadada Leo Smith/Jamie Saft/Joe Morris/Balasz Pandi: Red Hill

Balazs Pandi | Joe Morris | Jamie Saft | Wadada Leo Smith

One of the great challenges for any free improvising group is balance. Given the democracy of the premise, everybody can...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014

Tobias Christl: Wildern

From the Munich label's Young German Jazz series, this vocalist takes a singularly grungy jazz angle on everything from New...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Leo Appleyard: Pembroke Road

Eric Ford | Leo Appleyard | Neil Yates | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert

Guitarist Leo Appleyard makes his debut as a leader on CD with this thoughtful collection of eight originals and one...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014

Gene Ammons: Blue Groove/Preachin'

Doug Watkins | Dorral Anderson | Sylvester Hickman | Clarence ‘Sleepy’ Anderson | Ray Barretto | Gene Ammons | J.C. Heard

Gene Ammons never really enjoyed whatever success he ought to have had as both a prolific and popular recording artist,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014

Eyot: Similarity

Marko Stojilkovic | Pete Judge | Dejan Ilijic | Sladan Milenovic | Dejana Sekulic | Milos Vojvodic | Jake McMurchie

Get The Blessing bassist/producer Jim Barr liked this Serbian prog-jazz quartet enough when they met at their country's Nis jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2014

Colin Webster/Mark Holub: Viscera

Colin Webster | Mark Holub

Three albums in, and the duo of Webster and Holub are really starting to get their sound together. Holub, of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2014

Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue

Nina Simone's finest early work from Bethlehem has been out on loads of labels since, but it remains a classic,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014

Nomad Collective: Soundscapes of a Bedouin Rudeboy

A hypnotic, trippy debut from a seven-piece collective with a refreshingly subtle sense of rhythm coming mostly from Jamaican and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Hubert Laws: Crying Song/Afro-Classic/The Rite of Spring

Bobby Wood | Hubert Laws | Gene Bertoncini | Airto Moreira | Bobby Emmons | Bob James | Reggie Young | Wally Kane | Grady Tate | Billy Cobham

What a fascinating little time-capsule this double-CD reissue is. The three albums, recorded for Creed Taylor's CTI label between 1969...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2014