Mike Longo: Step on It

Mike Longo | Lewis Nash | Bob Cranshaw

Pianist Mike Longo has been around the block more than a few times. The last time I saw him was...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

Krokofant

Combining skronky free improv and prog-jazz fi repower this monster riffi ng Norwegian trio's new CD is not for the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Burnin' Red Ivanhoe: Canal Trip: An Anthology 1969-74

Proof positive that psychedelic jazz-rock was alive and well in Denmark in the late 1960s, this 2 CD set compiles...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Led Bib: The People In Your Neighbourhood

Liran Donin | Chris Williams | Pete Grogan | Toby McLaren | Mark Holub

For an instrumental band firmly at home in the jazz scene, Led Bib have always had a conspicuously ‘pop’ approach,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2014

Count Basie: Afrique

Sonny Cohn | Pete Minger, | Waymon Reed | Hubert Laws | Count Basie | Bill Hughes | John B. Williams | Mel Wanzo | Cecil Payne | Lockjaw Davis

A curiosity that probably should be credited to Bob Thiele rather than either Basie or Oliver Nelson, on a par...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014

The Bob Sands Quartet: Out and About

A long time Madrid-based Manhattan expat on tenor sax takes a stroll through a set of mostly dedicated hard bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Red Mitchell/Harold Land Quintet: Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The Atlantic reissue programme contains some real gems, and this set with the two principals paced by the energetic and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds: Blue Hour-The Complete Sessions

Blue Note put Turrentine together with their most popular piano trio and the results were predictably excellent – this issue...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Wayne Shorter: Second Genesis/Wayning Moments

Marshall Thompson | Freddie Hubbard | Eddie Higgins | Wayne Shorter | Jymie Merritt | Bob Cranshaw | Cedar Walton | Art Blakey

This material has been recycled to the point of exhaustion. But for newcomers here's a little history. Second Genesis was...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014

Charlotte Hug Stefano Pastor: Paragon D'archi

An experimental improv Swiss viola player and Italian violinist meet in duo and combine harsh discordant sounds, avant garde effects...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014