Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music/Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert

Lonnie Hillyer | Jon Faddis | Gerry Mulligan | Milt Hinton | Charles McCracken | Julius Watkins | Howard Johnson | Bill Cosby | Honey Gordon | Lee Konitz

Hard for me to be objective with this one, since the UK release of Let My Children coincided with the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014

Grant Green: Remembering Grant Green

Grant Green | Billy Higgins | Wilbur Ware | Sonny Clark | Butch Warren | Al Harewood

The biggest obstacle confronting jazz guitarists has invariably been creating an instantly recognisable signature sound. In far too many instances...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2014

Barry Guy New Orchestra: Amphi/Radio Rondo

Barry Guy | Johannes Bauer | Hans Koch | Jürg Wickihalder | Agustí Fernández | Herb Robertson | Evan Parker | Per Åke Holmlander | Raymond Strid | Paul Lytton

Barry Guy is powerful presence on the UK scene, with a discography that dates back to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble...

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

Jussi Fredriksson: Jazz Wars I & II

A Finnish pianist-keyboardist musically documents the episodes of wartime as well as post-bop traditions shifting from Euro folk-jazz through to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Monocled Man: Southern Drawl

Rory Simmons | Jon Scott | Chris Montague

When trumpeter Rory Simmons isn't touring and recording with Jamie Cullum, he's directing a huge bundle of creative energy into...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Jazz Messengers!!!! + Mosaic

Freddie Hubbard | Curtis Fuller | Wayne Shorter | Lee Morgan | Jymie Merritt | Bobby Timmons | Cedar Walton | Art Blakey

By the time The Messengers recorded Mosaic the group was in transition. Trombonist Curtis Fuller had become a permanent member...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2014

Don Ellis: The New Ellis Band Goes Underground/Don Ellis At Fillmore

Ernie Carlson | Lee Pastora | Rick Quintinal | Lonnie Shetter | Stuart Blumberg | Ralph Humphrey | Jock Ellis | Don Ellis | Doug Bixby | Hadley Caliman

Don Ellis knew he was fronting a big band in a brave, post-Kentonesque new era. He had done time with...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: June/2014

Tyler Blanton: Gotham

This young vibraphonist's quartet, with Donny McCaslin on tenor sax and Nate Woods on drums, mixes circling grooves and hard-hitting...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Book Of Sound

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

Zach Brock: Purple Sounds

This violinist in quartet with highly rated guitarist Lage Lund takes a progressive view of the history of the violin-guitar...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014