Kappeler/Zumthor: Babylon-Suite

Swiss musicians Vera Kappeler and Peter Conradin Zumthor between them play piano, drums, toy piano, voice and harmonium on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Ahmad Jamal Trio: Complete Live At The Spotlite Club 1958

Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Vernel Fournier

One of the only things John Hammond and Miles Davis agreed on was that Jamal was marvellous. Forgive me if...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014

Muthspiel Grenadier Blade: Driftwood

Wolfgang Muthspiel | Brian Blade | Larry Grenadier

While he's far less known in the UK, the 49-year-old guitarist and composer Wolfgang Muthspiel is one of the most...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

The Nels Cline Singers: Macroscope

Yuka C. Hinda | Scott Amendola | Josh Jones | Zeena Parkins | Trevor Dunn | Cyro Baptista | Nels Cline

Though he originally came out the 1980s jazz scene on the US West Coast, guitarist Nels Cline has also been...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014

Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah!

One of the great Mingus albums on which he plays piano throughout (Doug Watkins ably fills the bass chair) this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Oscar Peterson/Ben Webster: During This Time

Not a reissue but a first release of a 1972 NDR concert done the year of Webster's death but with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Billy Jenkins: The Semi-Detached Suburban Home (Music for Low Strung Guitar)

Billy Jenkins

Raise a glass to a masterpiece in miniature. Thirty solo tracks, with barely three breaking the two minute barrier, these...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Red Garland: Halleloo Y'All/When There Are Grey Skies

Another excellent volume in this label's mission to reissue Garland's 1950s and 60s Prestige sessions, and the two lineups on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Jim Mullen Organ Trio: Catch My Drift

Jim Mullen | Mike Gorman | Matt Skelton

This is the UK's premier guitar soloist swinging his regular touring trio through some neglected and indeed completely forgotten standards,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2014

Duke Ellington: Concert In The Virgin Isles

The title's a misnomer as this was recorded before and after Duke's trip to the Caribbean, but the ‘Virgin Isles...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014