Lyn Stanley: Lost in Romance

Why aren’t female MOR standard vocalists ever considered crooners? Well here’s one: a former US Ballroom dancing champ who can...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

Julian Argϋelles: Tetra

James Maddren | Julian Argϋelles | Kit Downes | Sam Lasserson

Argϋelles, like pal Django Bates, has grown older most gracefully, as gnarly and anarchic as Loose Tube days, but tempered...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015

Joe McPhee/Michael Marcus/Jay Rosen/Warren Smith: Blue Reality Quartet!

Jay Rosen | Joe McPhee | Michael Marcus | Warren Smith

Here’s the latest instalment in Arkansas-based Mahakala Music’s mission to bring together unfairly overlooked improvisers and free-jazz big guns. In...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite

Bob Brookmeyer | Jim Hall | Jimmy Giuffre

South London's Pure Pleasure label has, for years now, been doing jazz lovers a massive service with its (often) all-analogue...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Ted & Gladys: The Rhythm of Life

Geoff Gascoyne | Matt Home | Tom Cawley | Trudy Kerr

Given that they’ve played on each other’s albums for the past 15 years, it’s surprising that this is the very...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013

John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen

Isaiah J Thompson | John Pizzarelli | Mike Karn

“In thinking about some of the songs that I really love to play, it struck me how many of them...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2023

John Lake Trio: Up on the Downs

A Brighton-based local piano trio led by a veteran performer/composer playing folky themes using basic resources....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

The Michael Treni Big Band: Boy's Night Out

Starring heralded Boston saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, this veteran trombonist's arrangements are in the mainstream post-Thad Jones tradition....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Norman Simmons/Richard Evans Trio/Richard’s Almanac:

Two 1950s piano trios paired together to make two LPs into a passable length CD, but maybe it’d have been...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Frank Wess: Magic 101

The ex-Basie reedsman is of a generation that’s sadly now an endangered species. He was 89 in 2011 when this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013