Mike Baggetta Quartet: Thieves and Secrets

The New York guitarist Baggetta's quartet lays down some spooky electric jazz ambient sonics and grooves in the kind of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Claire Martin: Time and Place

Laurence Cottle | the Montpellier Cello Quartet | Joe Stilgoe | Claire Martin | Ben Reynolds | Gareth Williams | Jeremy Brown

While we've heard Claire Martin with string quartet before (her 2002 album Too Darn Hot!), the incredibly rich, homogeneous timbral...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2014

Diego Barber and Craig Taborn: Tales

Diego Barber | Craig Taborn

If ever there was evidence for the argument that there are actually more accomplished players in jazz than the genre's...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2014

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Impressions

Directed by trumpeter/composer Mark Harvey (someone who's recorded with George Russell) and founded in 1973, this 23-piece warmly experimental orchestra...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Scott Hamilton/Dany Doriz: Scott Hamilton Plays With the Dany Doriz Orchestra

Scott Hamilton | Philippe Duchemin | Patricia Lebeugle | Dany Doriz | Marc Fosset | Didier Dorise | Ronald Baker

Doriz runs the Caveau de la Huchette club in Paris and is something of a veteran of French mainstream jazz,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2014

Miles Davis: 1958 Miles

Billy Kyle | Trummy Young | Ella Fitzgerald | Barrett Deems | Edmond Hall | Dale Jones | Louis Armstrong

1958 Miles is a facsimile CD of a Japanese issue of the four remaining studio tracks of the Kind of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2018

David Newman: House of David

Back in 1967 after a three-year lay-off, this was Newman's first post-Ray Charles session, and it's packed with emotional punchy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

John Coltrane: The Complete Ray Draper Sessions

John Mayer | Gil Coggins | Spanky DeBrest | Ray Draper | John Coltrane | Larry Ritchie

Both of these releases would have to be called not only early, but minor, Coltrane. Acrobat, to be fair, describe...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Robin Jones' Latin Underground: Seven Stops To Heaven

Nick Walker | Johnny Gee | Chris Kibble | Gavin Broom | Robin Jones | Marc Cecil

Kicking off, suitably ambitiously, with a fine, Latino-fied version of ‘A Night In Tunisia’, this third disc from the underrated...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2014

Elan Mehler: Early Sunday Morning

There was a lot of noise about this quietly inventive pianist when Gilles Peterson introduced him on his Brownswood label,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014