Howard Alden/Andy Brown: Heavy Artillery

This New York and Chicago guitarist have had a 15 year partnership and here swap warm Django-inspired bebop licks on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Mal Waldron: Hard Talk

Mal Waldron | Allen Blairman | Manfred Schoof | Steve Lacy | Isla Eckinger

From the mid-period of his career, this reissue finds Waldron settled into his lengthy European sojourn, performing live at the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014

Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: What/If/They Both Could Fly

Joe McPhee | Evan Parker

Recorded live at the Norwegian Kongsberg Jazzfestival, this session captures the 68-year old Parker and 73-year old McPhee displaying all...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2014

Dave Jackson Quartet: Cosmontology

A bebop saxophonist from down under leads a Sydney-New York collaboration the latter being the UK-raised bassist Orlando Le Fleming...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65

Lonnie Hillyer | Jimmy Owens | Eric Dolphy | Johnny Coles | Julius Watkins | Howard Johnson | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Clifford Jordan | Hobart Dotson

What Mosaic does best is to take a segment of a musician's career, and then draw together musical documentation that...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2014

Dave Douglas: DD 50 Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings

Uri Caine | Matt Mitchell | Joshua Roseman | Greg Tardy | Rudy Royston | Linda Oh | Clarence Penn | Jon Irabagon | Dave Douglas | Aoife O'Donovan

Here's an invite to a fab party. To celebrate 50 years on the planet, Douglas has handsomely boxed three recent...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014

Pat Metheny Unity Group: Kin

Antonio Sanchez | Giulio Carmassi | Ben Williams | Chris Potter | Pat Metheny

This album builds on Metheny's Grammy-winning album Unity Band both conceptually and compositionally. This artistic growth of the group, who,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2014

Pete Rodriguez: El Alquimista (The Alchemist)

Ricardo Rodriguez | David Sánchez | Luis Perdomo | Roberto Quintero | Pete Rodriguez | Henry Cole

Yet another brilliant young Cuban trumpeter and yet another Rodriguez. No relation to Michael, whose recent Criss Cross CD should...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2014

Keith Jarrett: Concerts: Bregenz/München

Keith Jarrett

The simultaneous late November release of Concerts: Bregenz/München (3CD set), recorded 1981, and No End (2CD set), recorded in 1986,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2014

Natalie Williams: Where You Are

Natalie Williams | Chris Higginbottom | Phil Peskett | Al Cherry | Robin Mullarkey

Drawing on influences from soul, gospel and jazz, this latest album from MOBO nominated vocalist Natalie Williams sees her unveiling...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2014