Steve Davis: For Real

A trombonist who writes in the hard bop format loved by his mentors Art Blakey and Jackie McLean both with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Lee Konitz: Standards Live

Ziv Ravitz | Lee Konitz | Jeff Denson | Florian Weber

Lee Konitz presents a well-scrubbed image on the cover picture here, so clean-shaven and tidy that it's hard to imagine...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2014

Kenny Burrell: The Bluesin' Around Sessions

Upgraded from the original Columbia LP with additional takes, this is the issue to have of these early 1960s sessions...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Ivo Perelman Matthew Shipp Michael Bisio Whit Dickey: The Other Edge

Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Whit Dickey | William Parker | Michael Bisio

True to form, Perelman's latest work materialises in a batch of albums, rather than a single recording. The other continuity...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014

Thelonious Monk Quartet: Complete 1961 Amsterdam Concert

Thelonious Monk | John Ore | Frankie Dunlop | Charlie Rouse

There seem to be fewer live recordings from this first full European tour by Monk than from later ones. With...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore: Piano Nights

Morten Gass | Robin Rodenberg | Christoph Clöser | Thorsten Benning

After more than 20 years honing their crepuscular post-Lynchian noir, Nordrhein-Westfalen's most improbably named quartet have fashioned a horror score...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2014

Dewa Budjana: Surya Namaskar

Mang Ayi | Kang Pupung | Jimmy Johnson | Dewa Budjana | Michael Landau | Kang Iya | Vinnie Colaiuta | Gary Husband

Budjana is by all accounts a pop hero in his native Indonesia. But having just turned 50 life's starting all...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live in Saint Louis

Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane | Philly Joe Jones | Red Garland

This genuinely rare item is not to be confused with the more frequently reissued 1963 St. Louis set included as...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014

Jim Hart/Barry Green/Matt Ridley/Steve Brown: The MJQ Celebration

Barry Green | Matt Ridley | Dave O'Higgins | Jim Hart | Steve Brown

It was the late Michael Garrick who first conceived the idea of forming a quartet to celebrate the music of...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2014

Thumbscrew

Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

Here's an inter-generational US trio with serious avant-jazz credentials. Guitarist Halvorson and drummer Fujiwara have both worked with arch conceptualist...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014