Louis Armstrong: Three Classic Albums Plus

If you want a set of out-takes that go way beyond Essential Jazz Classics' reissue of the Roulette summit meetings...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Jason Moran: All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller

Nasheet Waits | Jason Moran | Meshell Ndegeocello | Tarus Mateen

Beginning life on stage as the Fats Waller Dance Party in 2011, when pianist Jason Moran was asked by the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014

Travis & Fripp: Discretion

Theo Travis | Robert Fripp

The earnest monochrome design, the stage shots with the players notably absent, the portraits with the downcast eyes, all summon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2014

Mack Avenue Super Band: Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival – 2013

Aaron Diehl | Rodney Whitaker | Evan Perri | Gary Burton | Carl Allen | Kirk Whalum | Warren Wolf | Sean Jones

The CD of the 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival must have sold reasonably well enough for Mack Avenue to release one...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2014

Plasmic: Live at Chilli Jazz Festival

An avant garde free European improv set by a quartet with Agnes Heginger on vocal containing imitative as well as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Supersilent: 12

Helge Sten | Arve Henriksen | Ståle Storløkken

12 is the first record in four years from Norway's Supersilent, a band even less imaginative than Soft Machine when...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2014

Monika Lidke: If I Was To Describe You

This Polish, London-based singer-songwriter's lyrics are sensitive and well-written, while the music is on the easy listening side of things....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Otis Brown III: The Thought Of You

Keyon Harrold | Ben Williams | John Ellis | Nikki Ross | Nir Felder | Shedrick Mitchell | Bilal | Gretchen Parlato | Otis Brown

One of the latest members of the drummer's A-list, Brown has more than proved his worth as a sideman (Lovano,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014

Walt Dickerson Quartet: The Complete New Jazz Recordings: This Is Walt Dickerson!/A Sense Of Direction/Relativity/To My

Andrew Cyrille | Andrew Hill | Bob Lewis | Walt Dickerson | George Tucker | Austin Crowe | Eustis Guillement Jr | Ahmed Abdul-Malik

When it comes to vibes players it's never really been an oversubscribed members club. Poised comfortably at the New Directions...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014

Mel Tormé: Swinging on the moon/Coming Home Baby

Two fine 1960s albums from Tormé, with the second the highlight, as he tackles modern jazz classics like ‘Walkin'’ and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014