Duke Pearson: Prairie Dog

Part of the Japanese reissue series, this features Pearson and saxophonist Harold Vick in a number of slightly different settings:...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Olivier Bogé: The World Begins Today

Tigran Hamasyan | Olivier Bogé | Jeff Ballard | Sam Minaie

Olivier Bogé, a young French saxophonist-composer, has assembled a tasty looking line up for his debut that includes the Brad...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Jazz Racine Haiti

An underrated Guadeloupe tenor saxophonist with an earthy pan- Caribbean reach to his music gives good value, basing his new...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Oscar Pettiford: Modern Quintet

Miserly playing time makes this oddball session from OP, playing cello and bass, with Julius Watkins on French horn, more...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Howard Alden/Andy Brown Quartet: Heavy Artillery

Following15 years of collaboration, this pair of consummate guitarists from New York and Chicago respectively, trades warm Djangoinspired bebop licks...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

The Universal Quartet: Light

Adam Rudolph | Yusef Lateef | Kasper Tranberg

‘Universal’ is a term indelibly associated with the likes of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, and its use in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014

Joe Zawinul: Zawinul

Walter Booker | Billy Hart | Jimmy Owens | Hubert Laws | Herbie Hancock | Wayne Shorter | Earl Turbinton | Miroslav Vitous | David Lee | Woody Shaw

Please don't call this the first Weather Report album. Yes, there's a personnel overlap. But the differences, notably Shaw's trumpet,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014

Phineas Newborn Jr: Here Is Phineas

Terrifi c release of Newborn’s 1956 ‘Piano Artistry’ album with solo pyrotechnics mixed with the trio of Pettiford and Clarke....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Blue Mitchell & Orchestra: Smooth Is The Wind/A Sure Thing

Urbie Green | Burt Collins | Jimmy Heath | Julian Priester | Wynton Kelly | Charlie Persip | Julius Watkins | Jerome Richardson | Junior Cook | Bernie Glow

Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell made up the front line of Horace Silver's wildly successful Quintet which between 1958 and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014

Robert Wyatt: '68

Jimi Hendrix | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt

Robert himself isn't keen on the ‘drummer biped’ decade leading up to the 1973 accident that left him paraplegic, and...

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