Warren Wolf: Wolfgang

Aaron Diehl | Billy Williams Jr. | Benny Green | Christian McBride | Aaron Goldberg | Lewis Nash | Warren Wolf | Kris Funn | Daryl Tookes

Warren Wolf is certainly the best new vibes player to emerge in recent years and this, his second outing for...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013

Ella Fitzgerald: With the Roy Eldridge Sextet live in Stockholm, 1957

Actually two JATP sets, one by Roy’s band, and the second by Ella, with Eldridge and Stuff Smith joining her...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Samuel Blaser Consort In Motion: A Mirror To Machaut

Gerry Hemingway | Joachim Badenhorst | Russ Lossing | Drew Gress | Samuel Blaser

This Swiss trombonist has been in impressive form of late, and his Hatology recordings are an excellent calling card for...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Catrin Finch/Seckou Keita: Clychau Dibon

A new collaboration of this harpist and master Kora player blend the traditions of Wales and Senegal with a deep...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Julie London: Sings Latin in a Satin Mood/Swing Me an Old Song

London’s voice is always worth hearing, and Swing Me an Old Song (directed by Jimmy Rowles) is a gem, though...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Satelliti: Transistor

A north Italian modern jazz duo that looks to krautrock and contemporary electronica’s chugging grooves, prog’s spacey ambience and Get...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Sebastien Texier: Toxic Parasites

An inheritor of his luminary father Henri’s spellbinding musical spirit, the multi-reedsman continues in the same vein here with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Dexter Gordon: Satin Doll – Dexter In Radioland Vol.14

Kenny Drew | Dexter Gordon | Art Taylor | Bo Stief

This was a period when just about every time ex-pat Dexter Gordon played a club date local radio was on...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2013

Bill Evans and Bob Brookmeyer: The Ivory Hunters

Percy Heath | brass-section | Bob Brookmeyer | Lee Konitz | Bill Evans | Roy Haynes | Connie Kay | Ernie Furtado | Sonny Dallas | Don Elliott

The official story of the Brookmeyer-Evans session (told in the 1980 reissue essay, which is borrowed along with the music)...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013

Joe Bushkin: Three Classic Albums Plus

Good selection, but sloppy notes – the second bassist (Sid Weiss) isn’t noted on ‘After Hours’ and the clearly audible...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019