Gary Husband: Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2

Alex Machacek/programming | Allan Holdsworth | Gary Husband | Jan Hammer | Jimmy Herring | Jimmy Johnson | John McLaughlin | Laurence Cottle | Livingston Browne | Mike Stern

Dedicated to Richard Turner, the young trumpeter too soon taken from us, Dirty & Beautiful Vol. 2 finds Husband delivering...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2012

The Howard Riley Trio: Angle/The Day Will Come

Alan Jackson | Barry Guy | Howard Riley

Released respectively in 1969 and 1970, these two albums were always seen by pianist Howard Riley as a pair. Now,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2015

George Duke: Feel

Airto Moreira | Flora Purim | George Duke | John Heard | Ndugu | Obdewl’l X

Duke has always been the jazz chameleon, able to soul it out with Cannonball Adderley, or fit glove-like with Zappa’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2022

Sun Ra: The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol. 1

Sun Ra

For their latest Sun Ra box set, US independent label Transparency has pulled out all the stops to produce a...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: July/2012

Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik

Adam Nussbaum | Bob Berg | David Kikoski | Dieter Ilg | Jeff Andrews | Joey Baron | Joey Calderazzo | Michael Brecker | Mike Stern | Randy Brecker

The Michael Brecker Band extensively toured in the late 1980s and 90s, and was widely expected to feature on Brecker's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga

Henry Lowther | Jack Bruce | Jon Hiseman | Ken McCarthy | Lyn Dobson | Ron Rubin

Taken from the Jon Hiseman tape archive, Group Sounds Four (a broadcast from June 1966 involving Lowther, Dobson, Bruce and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Project Them

A reliably cookin’ heavyweight mainstream post-bop session in which the meaty tenor saxophonist Bob Franceschini and vibraphonist Mark Sherman reunite,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014

Kate Williams: Atlas & Vulcana

Alex Garnett | Gareth Lockrane | Kate Williams | Matt Fishwick | Oli Hayhurst | Steve Fishwick | Tom White | Tristan Mailliot

Williams marches on as both composer and performer. This the latest in a series of self-produced albums, its contents matching...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2015

Dr Lonnie Smith: The Healer

Dr Lonnie Smith | Jamire Williams | Jonathan Kreisberg

Having been lucky enough to see Smith at the Jazz Café with Lou Donaldson a few years ago, I can...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Daniel Rosenboom's: Book of Omens

Trumpeter Rosenboom's apocalyptic suite has a experimental prog rock dimension as well as a noir-ish noughties Dave Douglas-infl uenced sound...

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