Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyōbin

Dave Holland | Derek Bailey | Evan Parker | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler

It’s an alarming thought that the Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyōbin – widely considered to be a founding document of British...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2018

Yuriy Galkin Nonet: Nine of a Kind

Dafydd Williams | Dave Hamblett | Freddie Gavita | George Crowley | Jon Stokes | ohn Turville | Richard Turner | Tamar Osborn | Yuriy Galkin

Since making his home in London first to take up a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in...

Reviewed by in issue: March/2012

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: I Long to See You

Bill Frisell | Charles Lloyd | Eric Harland | Greg Leisz | Norah Jones | Reuben Rogers | Willie Nelson

I Long to See You marks a change of pace for Charles Lloyd; there isn’t anything quite like it in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2016

Cedar Walton: The Bouncer

Cedar Walton | David Williams | Ray Mantilla | Steve Turré | Vincent Herring | Willie Jones III

It’s good to report that Walton, at 77 years old a jazz veteran if ever there was one, has produced...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2011

James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis

Having made a fine album with his Red Lily quintet in 2021, Jesup’s Wagon, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Dave Whitford | Frank Basile | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Various Artists: Jazz from London 1957

Bert Courtley | Bill Eyden | Dill Jones | Hank Shaw | Jimmy Skidmore | Ken Wray | Lennie Bush | Tubby Hayes

A real rarity, this one, a collectors' item that goes far enough back into British modern-jazz history to defeat even...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013

Hank Mobley: Workout + Hank Mobley Quartet

Art Blakey | Doug Watkins | Grant Green | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Wynton Kelly

It probably wasn't meant to be, but when, back in the day, Leonard Feather described Hank Mobley as “middleweight champion...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios

Al McKibbon | Art Blakey | Ben Riley | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Dave Brubeck | Frankie Dunlop | Gary Mapp | Gene Ramey | Johnny Griffin

The EJC label is well named in this case, although the contents render redundant an earlier CD of Monk’s first...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Joe Bushkin: Live at the Embers 1952

This was pianist Bushkin's rival to the Jonah Jones quartet, with Buck Clayton in the solo trumpet role, and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017