Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation

Ralph Bowen | Donald Edwards | Kenny Davis | Bill O'Connell

One-time OTB (Out of the Blue) member and now a highly respected Professor at Rutgers University, Ralph Bowen (like Jerry...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2014

Bolide: Perm Mutations

Reverend Cal-Mag Boron | Dick Moss | F. Ampism | The Sultan | Dr. Spiceberg

I know two members of Bolide – one a skronk scribe, the other a cartoonist and psychotronic film aficionado –...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2014

People: 3xaWoman

Mary Halvorson | Kevin Shea | Sam Kulik | Peter Evans | Kyle Forester | Dan Peck

It's hard to think of the last time an alumnus of Anthony Braxton released an album as satisfyingly entertaining as...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2014

Louis Armstrong: And His Friends

Louis' last album with saccharine strings and limp arrangements was a travesty, given his earlier contribution to jazz, and unless...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Tommy Andrews Quintet: The Crux

Nick Costley-White | Dave Hamblett | Dave Manington | Rick Simpson | Tommy Andrews

The son of not one but two trumpeters, woodwind player Tommy Andrews graduated from the Guildhall School of Music in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014

Sonny Rollins: The Contemporary Leader

Ernie Wilkins | Shelly Manne | Percy Heath | René Thomas | Hampton Hawes | Max Roach | Barney Kessel | Victor Feldman | Harry Saunders | Leroy Vinnegar

An absorbing compilation, assembled and annotated by Simon Spillett, it's a useful reminder of the period when Rollins carried all...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014

New York Standards Quartet: The New Straight Ahead

David Berkman | Daiki Yasukagawa | Gene Jackson | Tim Armacost

Here's a working group, eight years together, their avowed intent the re-imagining of familiar standards and jazz classics, hence the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2014

Karen Mantler: Business Is Bad

Kato Hideki | Karen Mantler | Doug Wieselman

Karen Mantler has quietly been finding her own orbit, both with the family firm (Mike Mantler is her father and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

Pete La Roca | Charles Lloyd | Ron Carter

Resonance Records continue to do the impossible by finding recorded material so rare that even the artists themselves never know...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Eddie Harris: Silver Cycles

Marco Valdez | Billy Hart | Richard Davis | Bruno Carr | Melvin Jackson | Monk Montgomery | Eddie Harris | Jodie Christian | Richard Smith | Joe Zawinul

The late Chicago saxophonist can make a credible claim to being one of the great bridges between the mainstream and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014