Stan Getz: Moments In Time

There seems no end to the posthumous treasures emerging from San Francisco's long-deceased Keystone Korner. This booking was to celebrate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016

Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Singles Collection 1956-1962

Bill Smith | Bob Bates | Carmen McRae | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

1956? This compilation of singles released by the Dave Brubeck Quartet actually begins in 1951, with the quartet's second outing...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2020

Daniel Carter/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Seraphic Light

Daniel Carter | Matthew Shipp | William Parker

This concert took place at Tufts University, Boston as part of an event called ‘Art, Race And Politics In America’,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018

Ravi Shankar: Nine Decades: Vol. III Orchestral Experimentations

AKC Natarajan | Chatur Lal | Ramnad Easwran | Ravi Shankar

This gathering of nine fascinating works recorded between 1949 and 1954 while Shankar was music director at the All India...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2012

Wadada Leo Smith: Emerald Duets

Andrew Cyrille | Han Bennink | Jack DeJohnette | Pheeroan aKLaff | Pheeroan akLaff | Wadada Leo Smith

A prolific output in the last decade has seen Smith explore many musical settings but the trumpeter's imagination knows no...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Miki Yamanaka: Human Dust Suite

This Japanese-born, New York-based pianist-vibraphonist's quartet (which includes bassist Orlando le Fleming) offers enjoyable tributes to Lee Konitz, Mulgrew Miller...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud

Agustí Fernández | Barry Guy | Ben Dwyer | Fanny Paccoud | Julius Gabriel | Lucas Niggli | Maya Homburger | Michael Niesemann | Michel Godard | Per Texas Johansson

Barry Guy's arresting epic, The Blue Shroud, draws its inspiration from a polemical curtain closer, a censoring veil thrown over...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2016

Dave Jackson Quartet: Cosmontology

A bebop saxophonist from down under leads a Sydney-New York collaboration the latter being the UK-raised bassist Orlando Le Fleming...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero

Booker T Jones | Charles Lloyd | Don Was | Eric Harland | Gerald Clayton | Julian Lage | Reuben Rogers

Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Herb Hardesty and His Band: The Domino Effect Wing & Federal Recordings 1958-1961

Alvin ‘Red’ Tyler | Clarence Ford | Cornelius ‘Tenoo’ Coleman | Edward Frank | Ernest McLean | Frank Fields | Hank Jones | Herb Hardestry | Jimmy Davis | Ray Montrell

Many future modern jazz stars including John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin and Stanley Turrentine were just some of the many young...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2012