Chet Baker: Albert’s House

Barney Kessel | Chet Baker | Frank Capp | Jim Hughart | Paul Smith

When Chet Baker had his teeth punched out in 1968, it initially appeared that his trumpeting career might be over.Fitted...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022

Aidan O’Rourke: Hotline

This Scottish fiddler-composer’s band for this atmospheric commissioned five-piece suite features excellent tenor saxophonist Phil Bancroft and Scottish harpist Catriona...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Wild Card: Organic Riot

Andrew Noble | B'loon | Clement Regert | Graeme Flowers | Jerome Harper | Joao Caetano | Lili Lonvheva | Natalie Williams | Roberto Manzin | Sophie Alloway

Wild Card and their amenable, danceable, brassy funk are driven largely by Regert's spicy guitar and held safe in Alloway's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015

Michel Camilo: Essence

Adam Kolker | Antonio Hart | Cliff Almond | David Taylor | Diego Urcola | Eliel Lazo | Frank Basile | Jason Jackson | John Walsh | Kali Rodriguez-Pena

The Dominican-born, Juilliard-trained pianist Michael Camilo has been leading bands for 25 years this year, and to celebrate – and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2019

Boris Kozlov: First Things First

Art Hirahara | Behn Gillece | Boris Kozlov | Donny McCaslin | Rudy Royston

Boris Kozlov has played on over 160 albums and holds the bass chair and MD of the Mingus Big Band...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2022

Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Screen Off

Ken Vandermark | Paal Nilssen-Love

This 10th album from the longstanding, high-energy, improvising sax/drums duo is a retrospective compilation of extracts from live shows recorded...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019

John Coltrane: The Complete Paul Chambers Sessions

Curtis Fuller | Donald Byrd | Elmo Hope | Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | John Coltrane | Kenny Burrell | Kenny Drew

Coltrane’s three 1956 sessions under the leadership of Chambers aren’t absolutely essential (Chambers’ Music, High Step and Whims of Chambers,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2013

Marius Neset: Birds

Anton Eger | Bjarke Mogensen | Daniel Herskedal | Ingrid Neset | Ivo Neame | Jasper Høiby | Jim Hart | Lasse Mauritzen | Marius Neset | Peter Jensen

The 27-year-old Copenhagen-based Norwegian saxophonist-composer made a huge splash with his Edition debut Golden Xplosion in 2011 and has been...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Nigel Price Organ Trio: Heads & Tales Volume 2

Alex Garnett | Matt Home | Nigel Price | Ross Stanley | Vasilis Xenopoulos

Price is a latter-day phenomenon, both as a jazz guitarist of great significance and as a bandleader renowned for his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017

Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound: Quartet and Quintet Albums with Roy Haynes

Booker Little | Eric Dolphy | Freddie Hubbard | George Duvivier | George Tucker | Jaki Byard | Oliver Nelson | Richard Wyands | Ron Carter | Roy Haynes

This well produced 2CD set with some fine Francis Wolff iconography combines Dolphy's first three albums under his own name...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019