BassDrumBone: The Long Road

Gerry Hemingway | Jason Moran | Joe Lovano | Mark Helias | Ray Anderson

Bassist Mark Helias, drummer Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson have been working as a free-flowing jazz collective since 1977...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2017

Barbara Long: Soul: The Voice of Barbara Long

Two sessions by this most fleet-voiced of 1960s jazz vocalists, blending perfectly with ensembles featuring respectively Booker Ervin and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Charlie Parker: The Long Lost Bird Afro-Cubop Recordings

Charlie Parker | Dizzy Gillespie | Stan Kenton | with Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra | Woody Herman and the Third

The ‘Afro-Cubop’ moniker is derived from Norman Granz's idea to feature Parker with Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra on December...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2023

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Gone With The Wind

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Two albums for the price of one here, with the title session from 1959 combined with the highly-regarded Time Further...

Reviewed by Peter Vachre in issue: August/2018

Michael J McEvoy: The Long Way Home

Ben Castle | Calum Gourlay | Dave Hamblett | Gerard Presencer | James Maddren | Jason Rebello | Mark Nightingale | Michael J McEvoy | Nigel Hitchcock | Tom Farmer

The name Michael J McEvoy might not ring a bell even though he's someone who has forged a successful career...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Rantala/Danielsson/Erskine: How Long Is Now?

Iiro Rantala | Lars Danielsson | Peter Erskine

Iiro Rantala is a piano virtuoso whose prowess at the keyboard can overwhelm audiences with joyful excess – as he...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

Geoff Eales, Ben Waghorn, Ashley John Long: Free Flow

Ashley John Long | Ben Waghorn | Geoff Eales

This is not your typical Geoff Eales disc. Not that Eales has ever been particularly easy to pigeonhole: Master of...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2013

Joan Mar Sauqué: Gone With The Wind

Joan Mar Sauqué

The trumpet-guitar-bass line-up inevitably recalls the Chet Baker trios of his later years, and the 25-year-old Sauqué looks recognisably soulful...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2021

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond

Porgrimur Jónsson | Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs

This is Sunna Gunnlaugs’ first trio album in 13 years, and here she is accompanied by Porgrimur Jónsson on bass...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2012

Ohad Talmor Newsreel Sextet: Long Forms

The New York-based Israeli saxophonist Ohad Talmor's extended compositions have an idiomatic reach that takes in both contemporary classical and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020