Philip Dizack: Single Soul

Ben Wendel | Philip Dizack | Eden Ladin | Eric Harland | Joe Sanders

Criss Cross boss Gerry Teekens has always been one of the producers who give emerging talents their first big break....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2014

Blazing Flame: Play High Mountain Top

Aaron Standon | Julie Tippetts | Keith Tippett | Anton Henley | Fiona Harvey | Bill Bartlett | Steve Day | Peter Evans | Dave Perry

It may be nonsense, but it is still sometimes said that all contemporary jazz sounds the same. That is not...

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

Francy Boland: Playing with the Trio

Originally scattered between the big band fare on Going Classic (Vogue) this presents Boland’s excellent trio – Kenny Clarke and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Jim Beard: Show Of Hands

Jim Beard

Beard is rightly feted as one of fusion's more intelligent keyboard sidemen, but that still won't prepare you for the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014

The Bannau Trio: Points of View

Ross Stanley | Gareth Lockrane | Nia Lynn

Recorded live at The Forge in London's Camden Town, this third album from The Bannau Trio – vocalist and composer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2014

Chet Baker: Chet Baker Quintette

Peter Littman | Jimmy Bond | Phil Urso | Richie Kamuca | Chet Baker | Art Pepper | Bill Loughbrough | Pete Jolly | Bobby Timmons

Crown was a West Coast budget label that leased its repertoire from Dick Bock's Pacific Jazz catalogue: being a random...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014

Fareed Haque: Out Of Nowhere

Fareed Haque | Billy Hart | John Tate | Rob Clearfield | Corey Healey | George Mraz | Doug Wiez | Salar Nader

Personally I'm always banjaxed by phrases likes ‘he's a guitarist's guitarist’. But perhaps it applies to Haque, who has a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014

The Jihad: Black and Beautiful… Soul and Madness

Bobby Lyle | Leonard Cathcart | Aireen Eternal | Gilbert Monk | Yusef Iman | Freddie Johnson | LeRoi Jones | Russell Lyle

Amiri Baraka, who died in January, came to prominence in the early 1960s as a poet with links to the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014

Snarky Puppy: We Like It Here

Chris Bullock | Mara Tieles | Michael League | Tessel Hersbach | Jay Jennings | Susanne Rosmolen | Yannick Hiwat | Larnell Lewis | Julio Pimental | Steven Brezet

Since 2005 Snarky Puppy have had a studio audience present at every recording, most vividly captured on the simultaneously filmed...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2014

Roswell Rudd: Trombone For Lovers

Ira Coleman | NYC Labor Chorus | Michael Ducret | Gary Lucas | John Medeski | Roswell Rudd | Aaron Comess | Matthew Finck | Dennis Nelson | T Xiques

As it says on the tin: the veteran trombonist delivers a set of unabashedly tender, heartstringspulling fare which harks back...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014