Ella Fitzgerald: Sings Gently with Nelson/Sings Broadway

The Broadway set has outstanding big band charts by Marty Paich, which have stood the test of time better than...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014

Matt Nelson: Lower Bottoms

Matt Nelson

Anyone currently flipping their wig over saxophonist Colin Stetson's flamboyant flights of extended technique will value the methods, if not...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: November/2014

Blueblut: Hurts so Gut

With song titles such as ‘Fuckhead Toothbrush’ you know you're in for a treat in the quirky company of leading...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Don Pullen: Richard's Tune

Don Pullen

Apart from his self-produced duo recordings with drummer Milford Graves, this was Pullen's first album under his own name, done...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2014

Dan Weiss: Fourteen

This hip and highly-regarded Brooklyn-based drummer took two years to write this unusual, intriguingly cryptic series of pieces for an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Joris Roelofs: Aliens Deliberating

A member of the prestigious Vienna Art Orchestra since 2005, this French-born, New York-based young bass clarinettist's trio recording with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Dom Um Romao

Frank Tusa | Richard Kimball | Dom Um Romao | Sivuca | Lloyd McNeil | Jimmy Bossey | Joe Beck | Mauricio Smith | Stanley Clarke | Amauri Tristao

In the age of world music and global travel, the image of a Brazilian tapping the resonator of a berimbau...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014

Helen Burnett: When First I Saw You There

Troy Miller | Helen Burnett | Ross Stanley | Jo Caleb | Freddie Gavita | Rob Mullarkey | Dan Faulkner

Featuring a mix of originals and standards, When First I Saw You There is the debut album from London-based jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014

Gary Burton: Conception: Anthology of Early Landmark Recordings

Gary Burton | Joe Morello | Chet Atkins | Bob Brookmeyer | Gene Cherico | Boots Randolph | Clark Terry | Floyd Cramer | Buddy Harman | Phil Woods

Several labels have chimed-in during recent times with reissues of Burton's precocious work as a teenager when contracted to RCA...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014

Lars Danielsson: Liberetto II

Magnus Öström | Zohar Fresco | Tigran | John Parricelli | Dominic Miller | Mathias Eick | Cæcilie Norby | Lars Danielsson

Bassist Lars Danielsson has a knack of forming great bands but it doesn't stop there – he somehow manages to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014