Chloe Charles: Break The Balance

Sam McLellan | Chloe Charles | Justin Craig | Matt Duncan

With its multiplicity of influences, this offbeat 12-track collection of originals from Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chloe Charles, channels everything...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2014

Bobby Troup: The Songs of Bobby Troup

Troup at his jazziest with Howard Roberts and Red Mitchell in support, and a set of standards that come alive...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt: Boss Tenors in Orbit!/Soul Summit

Not long after Verve reissued the first of these albums, this two-LPs-on-one-CD package comes along, which is excellently mastered and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Shez Raja Collective: Soho Live

Pascal Roggen | Shez Raja | Monica Lidke | Gilad Atzmon | Aaron Liddard | Shabaka Hutchings | Jay Phelps | Soweto Kinch | Alex Stanford | Chris Nicholls

Raja is one of the great communicators, able to row in all sorts of stellar guests to his jazz funk...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014

Takuya Kuroda: Rising Son

Solomon Dorsey | José James | Takuya Kuroda | Nate Smith | Lionel Loueke | Corey King | Kris Bowers

If the D'Angelo sub-text was clear on José James' engaging 2012 release No Beginning, No End, then this offering by...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Gato Barbieri: The Third World

Roswell Rudd | Lonnie Liston Smith | Beaver Harris | Charlie Haden | Richard Landrum | Gato Barbieri

Dubbed the ‘Trane of Argentina’ upon his emergence in the mid 1960s, Barbieri's fierce, torrid sound, with its abundance of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Pee Wee Russell: New Groove/College Concert

The two albums that endeared Pee Wee to modernists in the 1960s: abstract, brilliant, unclassifiable jazz, in the pianoless quartet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco | Michel Delville | Dave Liebman

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

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

Bud Powell: Birdland 1953

Curley Russell | Max Roach | Bud Powell | George Duvivier | Candido Camero | Roy Haynes | Charlie Parker | Charles Mingus | Franklin Skeets | Oscar Pettiford

First off, the music is by and large marvellous and, for a historical marker, it spans the months before and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014

Omar Sosa: Senses

Omar Sosa

In his sleeve notes the Cuban-born Barcelona-based pianist describes this new music as a presentation of his roots ‘in unusual,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014