David Binney: Anacapa

Louis Cole | Matt Brewer | Nina Geiger | Wayne Krantz | Adam Rogers | Dan Weiss | John Escreet | David Binney | Sergio Krakowski | Obed Calvaire

The saxophonist-composer David Binney's seventh release for the Dutch-based recorded-in-Brooklyn label Criss Cross, Anacapa, sounds like it could be the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

George Colligan: Ask Me Tomorrow

Linda Oh | Ted Poor | George Colligan

A little like Bill Carrothers, who avoids being on America's metropolitan jazz radar, Colligan has often been based far away...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

John Coltrane: Offering: Live at Temple University

Rashied Ali | Pharoah Sanders | Angie DeWitt | Sonny Johnson | Charles Brown | John Coltrane | Alice Coltrane | Umar Ali | Arnold Joyner | Robert Kenyatta

Naturally, a major archeological find such as this, a complete Coltrane concert recorded in good fidelity from a time in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2014

Dena DeRose: We Won't Forget You…

In celebration of the late Shirley Horn, breezily mainstream vocalist Dena DeRose's trio is joined by a cast of straightahead...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Johnny Scott Quintet: Purcell Variations For Five

Johnny Scott | Arthur Watts | Barry Morgan | Duncan Lamont | David Snell

Best known these days as a successful composer for TV and film, British flautist, Johnny Scott, started out as a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2014

Anders Koppel & Kenny Werner: Breaking Borders # 1

An unusual sounding improvising duo of Hammond organ and piano develop eerie, harmonically impressionistic soundscapes that touch on things like...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Tubby Hayes: The Best Of Tubby Hayes

Tubby Hayes | Ronnie Scott

For those who haven't picked up Acrobat's indispensible six-pack of Tubb's entire Tempo output, this single disc is a good...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014

Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo

Richard Evans | Chuck Lampkin | Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Jamil Nasser | Art Davis | Vernel Fournier

You might think the Jazzwise office is testing my resistance to Jamal, just like when they sent Roy Carr one...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Helio Parallax

Jahdan Blakkamore | Namiko Ishikawa | Josh Werner | Bill Laswell | Dustan Louque | Marihito Ayabe | Doug Wiesleman | Bianca Casady | Troy Simms | Raja Kassis

If you want to make an album that sounds woefully toothless and dated before it's even had a chance to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2014

Dave Liebman and Phil Markowitz: Manhattan Dialogues

Phil Markowitz | Dave Liebman

While the perspicacious Liebman travels the world lecturing, performing and giving master classes, he leaves countless CDs in his wake,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2014