Tina May: Divas

Winston Clifford | Adrian Fry | Frank Griffith | Bobby Worth | Andy Cleyndert | John Pearce | Tina May | Freddie Gavita | Dave Cliff | Bob Martin

Any new album by the great Tina May is to be welcomed, but this latest release is something very special...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Dunmall/Hanslip/Gibbs/Ricard: Weeping Idols

Mark Hanslip | Ed Ricard | Philip Gibbs | Paul Dunmall

Though he originally came up as part of London's Loop Collective in the mid-2000s, since around 2008, saxophonist Mark Hanslip...

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

Ollie Howell: Sutures and Stitches

Mark Perry | Matt Robinson | Ollie Howell | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert

None other than Quincy Jones saw something very special in this now London-based drummer when he saw him perform in...

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

Grid Mesh: Live in Madrid

This live experimental collective improv session led by guitarist Andreas Willers in a quartet featuring trombonist Johannes Bauer is dynamic...

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

Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Doug Watkins | Willie Jones | Mal Waldron | Eric Dolphy | Bud Powell | Shafi Hadi | Booker Ervin | Horace Parlan | Jimmy Knepper | Pepper Adams

Like the Coltrane box reviewed this month, this comprehensive reissue from the mid-1990s is a classic of jazz history, now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Wilford Brimley: with the Jeff Hamilton Trio

A veteran American fi lm and TV actor turns singer for one night and gives an understated Broadway-ish slant on...

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

Album Interview: Jason Rebello: Anything But Look

Troy Miller | Pino Palladino | Sumudu Jayatilaka | Omar | Karl Rasheed-Abel | Jason Rebello | Will Downing | Xantoné Blacq | Aja Downing | Jacob Collier

Anything But Look finds Rebello recording as a ‘solo’ artist after a hiatus of a dozen years. Not that he's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Vana Gierig: Making Memories

This virtuosic German New Yorkbased pianist-composer is joined by a big name guest Paquito D’Rivera on clarinet for a set...

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

Jules Faife: Compás

This London-based MOR classical guitar specialist has a band that includes accomplished pianist Alex Wilson, with fl amenco, Shakti-era John...

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

Kari Antila: The North Wind

Finish rising star guitarist-composer Kari Antila leads a classy quintet including ECM pianist Alexi Tuomarila, tastefully shifting between good-time fusion...

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