George Shearing: Four Classic Albums Plus

This puts the Shearing sound together with Nat Cole, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson and Dakota Staton, (plus Teddy King and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions

Percy Heath | Freddie Hubbard | Benny Golson | Bill Evans | Jimmy Knepper | Jim Hall | Zoot Sims | Phil Woods | Oscar Pettiford | Dannie Richmond

Preceded by the loss of Scott LaFaro, and Evans's subsequent depression and formation of the lower-key trio with Chuck Israels,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014

JD Allen: Bloom

Carmen Staaf | Michael Formanek | Jef Williams

JD Allen plays a lean, muscular and controlled tenor sax and powerfully compresses his Coltrane/Rollins roots into condensed statements of...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2019

Clark Tracey: Meantime…

Henry Armburg Jennings | Chris Maddock | Daniel Casimir | Harry Bolt | Clark Tracey

This quintet is one of the liveliest and most creative groups of young musicians that Clark Tracey has led. The...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Gentle Giant: The Power and The Glory

Ray Shulman | Kerry Minnear | John Weathers | Derek Shulman | Gary Green

Gentle Giant may not have obvious jazz credentials but we ignore their influence on the current jazz scene at our...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Coryell Mouzon: Back Together Again

Philip Catherine | Larry Coryell | John Lee | Alphonse Mouzon

Back together again, as in reviving the protagonists' fruitful partnership in Eleventh House, but this woeful recording bares little comparison...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Indigo Mist: That the Days Go By and Never Come Again

Cuong Vu | Joshua Parmenter | Shih-Wei Lo | Richard Karpen | Luke Berman | Ted Poor | Douglas Niemela | Ivan Arteaga

There's nothing that whets the appetite for digging into a new release quite like discovering that it features a ‘live...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014

Steve Lehman Octet: Mise En Abîme

Chris Dingman | Tyshawn Sorey | Jonathan Finlayson | Steve Lehman | Jose Davila | Tim Albright | Drew Gress | Mark Shim

Building a bridge between improvisation and ‘urban music’ has exercised several minds in the past two decades, presumably because of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Sten Sandell and Paal Nilssen-Love: Jacana

Sten Sandell | Paal Nilssen-Love

Norwegian drummer, Nilssen-Love, and veteran Swedish pianist, Sandell, have worked together in a trio with bassist Johan Berthling since 1999,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Blue Rondo A La Turk: Chewing the Fat

Mark Reilly | Daniel White | Geraldo D'Arbilly | Tholo Peter Psegona | Moses Mount Bassie | Chris Sullivan | Kito Poncioni | The Rondettes | Mike Lloyd Bynoe | Art Collins

Kevin Rowland called them ‘the coolest band on the planet’ – and in the early 1980s, London collective Blue Rondo...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2014