Charles Lloyd Quartet: Dream Weaver

Cecil McBee | Keith Jarrett | Charles Lloyd | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette

In 1967–1968 it was not Miles Davis that jazz audiences were flocking to see, but tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd whose...

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

Steve Turre: The Bones of Art

Steve Davis | Robin Eubanks | Pedro Martinez | Peter Washington | Kenny Davis | Steve Turre | Frank Lacy | Willie Jones III | Xavier Davis

Here's a masterclass for trombonists everywhere. The album title means not only ‘we're artists of the trombone’, but is also...

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

Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon: A Moment Of Now

Jacob Karlzon | Viktoria Tolstoy

Swedish vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy celebrates 10 years as an ACT artist with this superb new duet album with pianist Jacob...

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

Mark Murphy: The Complete Decca Recordings

Mark Murphy | Ralph Burns

This brilliant Mark Murphy twofer couples Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go and marks the very beginning of the...

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

Jaki Byard: Hi-Fly + Here's Jaki

Roy Haynes | Ron Carter | Pete LaRoca | Jaki Byard

Fifty years ago exactly, when people had open-reel recorders instead of YouTube, these two albums were copied for me by...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013

Frank Sinatra: Sinatra-Basie/Sinatra and Swinging Brass

Sinatra’s voice excels in the settings Neal Hefti created for him, both with Basie and an all-star LA big band,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying

Julian Lage | Fred Hersch

This album title is very attractive because flying is precisely what true jazz improvisers aim to do, using the momentum...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013

European Jazz Trio

Veteran German saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Ali Haurand and Czech flautist Jiri Stivin stay closer to a raw, lyrical traditional...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

John Escreet: Sabotage and Celebration

Louis Cole | Matt Brewer | Mariel Roberts | Nina Geiger | Genevieve Artadi | Adam Rogers | Shane Endsley | Josh Roseman | Annette Homann | Jim Black

For John Escreet’s fifth recording since the impressively ambitious debut Consequences in 2008, the New York jazz scene’s hottest English...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Jacob Teichroew Quintet: Tableaux

A quiet debut by a young Brooklyn-based saxophonist who has something of Lee Konitz’s intimate sound and patiently developed phrasing,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013