Dave Bailey: The Complete 1 & 2 Feet In The Gutter Sessions

Bailey's sextet sessions for Epic were particularly showcases for the late Clark Terry, who stamps his personality indelibly on this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

The Bad Plus: Activate Infinity

Dave King | Orrin Evans | Reid Anderson

Few jazz ensembles can be identified as instantaneously as The Bad Plus. There are even fewer that can replace a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Phil Netherwitton's Temperature Control: The Sidcup Sessions: Vol. 1

Cliff Purbeck | Dave Satchel | Flip Hickwick | Phil Netherwitton | Richmond Dunckley

“We'd all been listening to stuff like In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. Then Weather Report came along around...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: July/2017

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Don Alias | Harvey Brooks | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Zawinul | Lenny White | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Just for the record, 2010 was the 40th Anniversary year of Bitches Brew, you haven't woken up in a time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Loafer's Hollow

Brandon Seabrook | Dave Taylor | Jon Irabagon | Kevin Shea | Moppa Elliott | Ron Stabinsky | Steven Bernstein

Like the musical lovechild of Billy Jenkins, John Zorn and Frank Zappa, MOPDTK are spunky satirists looking to provide an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

The Bad Plus and Joshua Redman: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Dave King | Ethan Iverson | Joshua Redman | Reid Anderson

If we were to look at the career trajectories of both Redman and Bad Plus, we would see in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Charlie Watts/Danish Radio Big Band: Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band

Charlie Watts | Dave Green | Gerard Presencer

Herein lies a tale. When Charlie Watts was talking to Gerard Presencer shortly after the trumpeter landed a job with...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2017

Carmen McRae: Take Five/Live at Sugar Hill

Two live sets, the fi rst with Dave Brubeck's trio in 1961 – Dave and Joe Morello shadowing every nuance...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Gerald Clark: Nakba – A Jazz Suite for Palestine

Byron Wallen | Dave Hamblett | Duncan Haynes | Johnny Lippiett | Sam Lasserson

Gerald Clark, a London-based composer-arranger, has played a patient game with this release; he started writing the music for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Geoff Simkins Trio: In A Quiet Way

Dave Green | Geoff Simkins | Nikki Iles

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a review of mine devoted to a London appearance by this Simkins trio...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2017