Michael Bates: One From None

Michael Bates | Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing | Michael Blake | Samuel Blaser

The final piece on this album ‘It Began To Get Dark’ is, whether intentionally or not, something of a leitmotiv...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Trio Elf: Amsterdam

A live recording by a piano trio featuring drummer Gerwin Eisenhauer, pianist Walter Lang and bassist Sven Faller that introduces...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders: Skip

Mark Sanders | Dominic Lash | Pat Thomas

On the face of it, this live album captures three British musicians reinterpreting a stack of standards by a pantheon...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Trios

Andy Sheppard | Carla Bley | Steve Swallow

It is quite probable that Carla Bley has lost count of the number of people who have recorded her compositions,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013

Africando: Viva Africando

Miguel Gomez | Doug Beavers | Yasvani Qurioos | Oscar Hernandez | Dembel Diop | Spanish Harlem Orchestra | Samuel Ruiz Aleman | Geraldo Rosales | Dizzy Mandejeku | Fabio Deldongo

Africando are one of the greatest salsa orchestras on the planet, and one way overdue their dues. The sprawling line...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2013

Mack Avenue Superband: Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival

Or a super-group jam session featuring some of the leading lights of this classy mainstream jazz label live in its...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Teddi King: The Storyville Sessions

A reminder of King’s lovely voice with two bands of regulars at George Wein’s Boston club in the mid-1950s, of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Kevin Fitzsimmons: Show Me the Way

Derek Nash | Matt Fishwick | Steve Fishwick | Leon Greening | Dominic Howles | Gareth Lockrane | Alex Garnett | Kevin Fitzsimmons

This recording by the London-based crooner Kevin Fitzsimmons could hardly be called unusual, but in one respect it actually is....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Clifford Jordan: Spellbound/Starting Time/Bearcat

Twenty-two tracks from Jordan at his aggressive best in the early 1960s, ideally supported by the late Cedar Walton and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Milt Buckner: Mighty High/Midnight Mood

Organ jazz by Buckner at the height of his powers, aided by Kenny Burrell on the first of the two...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013