Jimmy Smith: Bashin' – The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith/Plays Fats Waller

Jimmy Smith

This was the Big One. Since 1956, ‘The Incredible One’ had achieved all he possibly could during a busy eight-year...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Ralph Towner/WolfgangMuthspiel/Slava Grigoryan: Travel Guide

Ralph Towner | Slava Grigoryan | Wolfgang Muthspiel

This trio of guitarists from Austria, Kazakhstan and America made their first appearance on disc on From a Dream (2009)...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Charles Brackeen, Rhythm X (The Music of Charles Brackeen):

Edward Blackwell | Don Cherry | Charles Brackeen | Charlie Haden

The criminally under-recorded saxophonist Brackeen's most coherent and visible statement, Rhythm X, was briefly available on CD in both German...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Fringe Magnetic: Clocca

Jasper Høiby | Robin Fincker | Natalie Rozario | Kit Massey | Rory Simmons | Emilia Mårtensson | James Allsopp | Andrew Plummer | Ben Reynolds | Tori Freestone

If, as reported, this CD is the swansong, the final third album from the Loop Collective and Jamie Cullum trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Astro Sonic: Come Closer And I'll Tell You

Erlend Slettevol | Rune Nergaard | Gard Nilssen

Bassist Rune Nergaard and drummer Gard Nilssen constitute the powerhouse rhythm section that drives jazz-rock monster trio Bushman's Revenge. With...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Marty Paich and the Modern Touch: The Broadway Bit

A smaller band, with the genius of Scott LaFaro in the rhythm section and Art Pepper still shining in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Gerald Clark: Nakba – A Jazz Suite for Palestine

Byron Wallen | Sam Lasserson | Dave Hamblett | Duncan Haynes | Johnny Lippiett

Gerald Clark, a London-based composer-arranger, has played a patient game with this release; he started writing the music for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Distilled

Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Þorgrímur Jónsson

This is the third album in recent times involving Sunna Gunnlaugs to be reviewed in these pages. She is one...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Various: Jazz On Film: French New Wave 1957-62

Miles Davis | MJQ et al | Jazz Messengers | various American and French musicians

This third 5-CD box set of further Jazz On Film recordings produced, selected and annotated by Selwyn Harris homes in...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

AfroHORN/Francisco Mora Catlett: Rare Metal

Roman Diaz | Andrew Daniels | Sam Newsome | Francisco Mora Catlett | Alex Harding | Rashaan Carter | Aruán Ortiz | Salim Washington

The follow-up to the striking Afro Horn Mix is with us already. This is the band that was conceived by...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014