Dizzy Gillespie: The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All

Pee Wee Moore | Charli Persip | Benny Golson | Ray Bryant | Stan Getz | Henry Coker | Herb Ellis | Tommy Bryant | Gus Johnson | Oscar Peterson

A curious choice for the designation of American Jazz Classics, even if it is nice to see all of the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2014

Frank Kimbrough: Quartet

The well-schooled Kimbrough is regularly with Maria Schneider's Jazz Orchestra (as are Anderson and Wilson) and that should be recommendation...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Ceccarelli Pilc Bramerie: Twenty

Listen with pleasure to a piano trio that features the US-based, Paris-born classical-influenced pianist Jean-Michel Pilc and an inventive re-imagination...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Wayne Horvitz: 55: Music and Dance in Concrete

Kate Olson | Briggan Krauss | Steven O'Brien | Victoria Parker | Eyvind Kang | Wayne Horvitz | Heather Bentley | Beth Fleenor | Naomi Siegel | Roweena Hammil

If, on first hearing, the music on this album sounds like a soundtrack in an art installation, then you'd be...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2014

Mostly Other People do the Killing: Blue

Audun Kleive | Bjorn Kjellemyr | Terje Rypdal

Bassist Moppa Elliot's punky satirists MOPDTK, aside from having possibly the longest acronym in jazz band history, likes to target...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Alan Broadbent & NDR Big Band: America The Beautiful

Ingmar Heller | Frank Delle | Dan Gottshall | Claus Stötter | Jörg Achim Keller | Broadbent | Christof Lauer | Fiete Felsch | Marcel Serierse | Lutz Büchner

Happily, this reached me just a couple of weeks before the chance to see Broadbent in person and it sheds...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Jacques Loussier Trio: Plays Bach/Beyond Bach, Other Composers I Adore

Jacques Loussier had a different idea about ‘standards’ to other jazz musicians in the late 1950s. Celebrating his 80th birthday...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Tingvall Trio: Beat

Adrian Belew | Tony Levin | Robert Fripp | Bill Bruford

The Tingvall Trio, comprising Martin Tingvall from Sweden, Omar Rodriguez Calvo from Cuba and Jürgen Spiegel from Germany, have been...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016

Mark Murphy: Playing the Field/Rah/That's How I Love The Blues

It's heresy in some quarters to say so, but Murphy is really a dreadful singer, mannered and out of tune,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Betty Carter: Four Classic Albums

Four early examples of BC as her distinctive musical personality emerged, including the classic 1955 set with Ray Bryant, and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020