Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock: Whispering of the Stars

Brian Kellock | Tommy Smith

This is Smith and Kellock's third duo collaboration on record and perhaps more than its predecessors is revealing of an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014

Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol. 3

Steve Jordan | Stephen Scott | Kimati Dinizulu | Sonny Rollins | Perry Wilson | Sammy Figueroa | Clifton Anderson | Bobby Broom | Bob Cranshaw | Peter Bernstein

This begins with a lengthy bout of applause, entirely justified by what follows. It's not just Rollins' infernally catchy riff...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014

Bobby Avey: Authority Melts From Me

Ben Monder | Miguel Zenón | Bobby Avey | Thomson Kneeland | Jordan Perlson

Bobby Avey won the Thelonius Monk prize for composition in 2011 and currently holds the piano chair with Dave Liebman's...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2014

Steve Lacy: Avignon And After 2 (1972-7)

Steve Lacy

A man who only played the ‘straight horn’ throughout his lengthy and accomplished career, Lacy really seems in his element...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014

Pierrick Pédron: Kubic's Cure

The French saxophonist and his rocking trio interpret the songs of Robert Smith's goth pop rockers but come on like...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Clare Fischer Big Band: Thesaurus

A welcome reissue for this album by pianist and arranger Fischer, whose writing is always a tonic – notably here...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Lee Morgan/Clifford Jordan Quintet: Live in Baltimore 1968

Ed Blackwell | John Hicks | Lee Morgan | Clifford Jordan | Reggie Workman

The commercial success of The Sidewinder may have caused a few headaches for Alfred Lion searching vainly for a follow-up...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2014

Helge Lien Trio: Badgers and Oteings

Frode Berg | Per Oddvar Johansen | Helge Lein

Although Lien's trio was formed in 2001, it took until 2008's Hello Troll to make an international breakthrough which was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014

Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson: With the Cannonball Adderley Quintet

The celebrated summit meeting between Vinson and the Adderley brothers is blues-drenched, but equally full of sparkling jazz from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Cecil Taylor: Three Classic Albums Plus

Once you overcome the double shock of seeing a picture of Cecil Taylor with neatly trimmed hair on an album...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2019