Various: Beat Generation – Hep Cats, Hipsters & Beatniks 1936-1962

Art Tatum | Billie Holiday | Bo Diddley | Bud Powell | Edd Byrnes | Jack Kerouac | Louis Jordan | Miles Davis | Roy Eldridge | Stan Getz

Produced in association with the Centre Pompidou at the time of last summer's Beat Generation exhibition in Paris, this 3CD...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Nigel Price Organ Trio: Heads and Tales

Alex Garnett | Matt Home | Nigel Price | Pete Whittaker | Snowboy

The bored squaddie who took up guitar in a Belfast barracks continues to march onwards and upwards. Having emerged from...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Milford Graves: Bäbi

Arthur Doyle | Hugh Glover | Milford Graves

Originally released in 1977 on Institute of Percussive Studies, the label founded by Graves and fellow free-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

The Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Funk Is My Religion

Sweet soul, groove-jazz and funk has been the retro ingredients effectively served up by trombonist Nils Landgren over the last...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Brand/Beresford/Edwards/Sanders: All Will Be Said, All To Do Again

John Edwards | Mark Sanders | Sarah Gail Brand | Steve Beresford

It's hard to name more than a handful of trombonists working in free improv - Alan Tomlinson and Conny Bauer...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2019

Sex Mob: Plays Fellini (The Music of Nino Rota)

Steven Bernstein’s downtown quartet Sexmob have been missed since their last studio recording in 2005, and they make their earthy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Gerald Cannon: Combinations

Duane Eubanks | Gary Bartz | Gerald Cannon | Jeremy Pelt | Kenny Barron | Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Sherman Irby | Steve Slagle | Will Calhoun

It's been 14 years since highly respected veteran bassist Cannon brought out an album under his own name. You probably...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2017

Various Artists: I Love You Cole Porter

An assemblage of Porter songs, by artists as varied as Dirk Bogarde and Cecil Taylor, the main idea is to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra

Canadian double-bassist Haines' touching folky orchestrations pay tribute to the songwriters of his homeland including Neil Young (an unexpectedly likeable...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Change In The Air

Bill Frisell | Cuong Vu | Luke Bergman | Ted Poor

Cuong Vu has long been associated with ‘eout there’ directions in jazz, as he most recently demonstrated in 2016 with...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2018