Miroslav Vitous Group:

Miroslav Vitous | Jan Christensen | Kenny Kirkland | John Surman

What startles here is the piano playing of Kirkland. Barely 25, he has a kick-ass attitude mixed with the vet's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014

Andrea Motis and Joan Chamorro Quintet featuring Scott Hamilton: Live at Jamboree Barcelona

Scott Hamilton | Ignasi Terraza | Josep Traver | Andrea Motis | Esteve Pi | Joan Chamorro

This is Motis's album in effect, her sweet-sounding vocals a constant feature as is her bright-sounding trumpet, boppish in tone...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2014

Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling

James Mtume | George Barron | Badal Roy | Cecil McBee | Joe Beck | Lonnie Liston Smith | David Lee | Geeta Vashi | Sonny Morgan

Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Dhafer Youssef: Birds Requiem

Nils Petter Molvær | Chander Sardjoe | Dhafer Youssef | Phil Donkin | Nils Petter Molvaer | Aytac Dogan | Kristjan Randalu | Husnu Senlendirici

Recorded primarily in Sweden – hence the line-up of names familiar to Scandinavian jazz lovers – this beautiful, delicate offering...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2014

Joachim Kühn: 70th Birthday Edition: Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark/Europeana

Klaus Doldinger | Daniel Humair | Django Bates | Mike Gibbs | Richard Galliano | Christof Lauer | Albert Mangelsdorff | Joachim Kühn | Markus Stockhausen | Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark

Now 70, Kühn's achievements are rightly being celebrated by the ACT label, and although it is doubtful that they will...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014

Ben Webster: The Warm Moods

Dave Barbour | Jimmy Rowles | Leroy Vinnegar | Shorty Sherock | Benny Carter | Barney Bigard | Mel Lewis | Ben Webster

I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014

Ben Webster Quartet: Live In Hilversum 1970

John Engels | Cees Slinger | Rob Langereis | Ben Webster

I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014

Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams: Motor City Scene

Out years ago on the Charly imprint, this classic of Detroit jazz is a welcome reissue as part of Naxos...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Dave Stryker: Eight Track

In 1975 this NYC-based guitarist was listening to plenty of pop (as well as jazz) on his eight-track tape player...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Grant Green: Goin' West/Feelin' The Spirit

Two Blue Note albums in their entirety together with a bonus off the Sonny Clark Quartets album – for guitar...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014