Susan Clynes: Life is…

A Belgian singer-songwriter/pianist with an approach somewhere between Patti Smith and Tori Amos, on a rather crude live recording made...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Little Feat: Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros years 1971-1990

Bill Payne | Sam Clayton | Richie Hayward | Kenny Gradney | Paul Barrere | Roy Estrada | Lowell George

Time Loves A Hero proclaims the title of Little Feat's sixth album, but time has clearly not loved the band's...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2014

Nina Kristofferson: Billie Holiday Story

Currently on tour with her one-woman musical theatre portrayal of Billie Holiday's life, here she presents her derivative versions of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Jazz Crusaders: At The Lighthouse '62

A storming live session from Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and the chaps in front of a boisterous crowd at the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Step Wide, Step Deep

Otto Fischer | Alexander Hawkins | Neil Charles | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Skinner | Dylan Bates

If you've been keeping an ear to the ground (as well as to jazz on the radio) in the past...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Sam Rivers: Contrasts

Dave Holland | George Lewis | Thurman Barker | Sam Rivers

The title is not superficial. Indeed in light of other works (Contours, Colors, Hints On Light And Shadow), it captures...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Resolution 88

This Cambridge-based synth-y jazz funk band recorded with the Headhunters sound in mind and does a good job of it....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Mike Outram | Lee Fletcher | Billy Bottle | Angus Menter | Martine Waltier | Markus Reuter | Gary Evans | Vivien Goodwin-Darke | Jay Darlington | Kate Westbrook

Mystical reflections on England's green and pleasant land might have gone out of fashion after 1970s prog rock but the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Tom Guarna: Rush

Orlando Le Fleming | Danny Grissett | Tom Guarna | Johnathan Blake | Joel Frahm | Orlando le Fleming

Fresh, high-energy and inventive, this is postmodern straight-ahead instrumental jazz by a dedicated team of young veterans who work and...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

Howard McGhee: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out/House Warmin'

McGhee in 1962 blowing with assurance and taking the spotlight on a quartet album as well as co-fronting an energetic...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014