Sonny Stitt: Low Flame/Feelin's

A companion volume to the Prestige set recently reviewed here, this is Stitt's quartet with organist Don Patterson, drawn from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Hank Crawford: Mr. Blues

Hank Crawford | Eric Gale | Paul Griffin | David Newman

During a lengthy career, Hank Crawford probably recorded almost as many albums as his famous employer Ray Charles. The Memphis-born...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014

Nat King Cole: Live in Tokyo

Leroy Williams | Sam Jones | Barry Harris

A document rather than an album – the soundtrack of a Japanese TV show (with a bonus BBC special thrown...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

JC Sanford Orchestra: Views for the Inside

Satoshi Takeishi | Matt Holman | Kenny Berger | JC Sanford | Ben Kono | Jeff Nelson | Jacob Garchik | Taylor Haskins | Chris Komer | Dan Willis

The 12 tracks in this left-field mix of orchestral blast and chamber music subtlety include the waltz ‘Robins in Snow’,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2014

The Ambient Jazz Ensemble: Suite Shop

UK Composer Colin Baldry's band, featuring Neil Cowley on keys, is more or less what it says on the tin,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Eric Reed: The Adventurous Monk

Ben Williams | Charenée Wade | Gregory Hutchinson | Seamus Blake | Eric Reed

Following hot on the swinging, angular heels of 2011's The Dancing Monk and 2012's The Baddest Monk, this is Philadelphian...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2014

Konitz Tepfer Janisch Williams: Live in London Volume 1

Michael Janisch | Lee Konitz | Dan Tepfer | Jeff Williams

The 86-year-old saxophonist Lee Konitz was in relentless form performing at the London Jazz Festival only last year. He'd lost...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Philip Gibbs: The Clouds Turned Silver

Philip Gibbs | Paul Rogers | Paul Dunmall

Dunmall and Rogers are members of Mujician, alongside Keith Tippett and Tony Levin; the pair, along with Gibbs, have also...

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

Dino Saluzzi Group: El Valle de la Infancia

Matias Saluzzi | José Maria Saluzzi | Felix ‘Cuchara’ Saluzzi | Dino Saluzzi | Quintino Cinalli | Colacho Brizuela

This is a family affair, recorded in the first part of last year in Buenos Aires: the great bandeonist Dino...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2014

Ginger Baker: Why?

Alec Dankworth | Ginger Baker | Pee Wee Ellis | Abass Dodoo

On Ginger Baker's first studio album in 16 years, tracks like the bluesy crawler, ‘Cyril Davis’, match Pee Wee Ellis'...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014