Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov Duo: Descriptions

Recorded live at the Loft in Cologne, the duo of this Russian virtuoso pianist and German saxophonist create abstract, angular...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Miles Davis: North Sea Legendary Concerts

Christian McBride | Mitchel Forman | Herbie Hancock | Wayne Shorter | Gary Willis | Brian Blade | Tom Brechtlein | Danilo Pérez

This concert was recorded on 13th July 1985, when Miles Davis opened the second day (Saturday) of the North Sea...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2014

Nostalgia 77: A Journey Too Far

Following the excellent funkily instrumental The Taxidermist, Benedic Lamdin's fi fth recording returns to songs and draws directly on psych...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Kid Ory: The Original Jazz

This comparatively late (1957) band with the eccentric Darnell Howard is not in the same league as Ory’s 1940s work,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

Amy Cervini: Jazz Country

An NYC-based Toronto vocalist and her trio takes on the ‘North Americana’ songbook in style, complemented by local guest spots...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Charles Evans: Subliminal Leaps

Ron Stabinsky | Charles Evans | Dave Liebman | Tony Marino

A youngish Brooklyn-based saxophonist who studied with Liebman, Evans has been a baritone specialist since the age of 17 and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2014

Steve Gadd: Gadditude

Walt Fowler | David Lasley | Steve Gadd | Arnold McCuller | Jimmy Johnson | Michael Landau | Larry Goldings

Thankfully this virtuoso crew are more than James Taylor's backing band, although doubtless that's how this release will sell it....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014

Bobo Moreno: Silhouette

Backed by a jazz quartet, this Danish folky soul vocalist heads a disappointingly routine, middle of the road interpretation of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Chick Corea: Tones for Joan's Bones

Joe Chambers | Chick Corea | Joe Farrell | Woody Shaw | Steve Swallow

This classy Japanese reissue of Corea's debut as a leader on LP for Herbie Mann's Vortex label, then distributed by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2014

Album Interview: Avishai Cohen: Almah

Cordelia Hagmann | Ofri Nehemya | Avishai Cohen | Nitai Hershkovits | Yael Shapira | Noam Haimovitz Weinschel | Yoram Lachish | Amit Landau

Some crossover projects might lead you to the conclusion that jazz and classical are mutually disempowering: the constraints on the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2014