Dave Brubeck Quartet With Carmen McRae: Tonight Only!

Carmen McRae | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Dave Brubeck could never be accused of not taking risks – just check out his discography to confirm this. Many...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012

Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Buster Williams | Chet Baker | Edir dos Santos | Gunter Lenz | Larry Coryell | Nicola Stlo | Peri dos Santos | Rocky Knauer | Tony Williams | Wolfgang Lackerschmid

Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015

Thelonious Monk: Complete 1954-1962 Studio Solo Recordings

Thelonious Monk

Coming after recent releases of Monk quartet concerts with Charlie Rouse, here's a welcome return to basics. Not that the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2017

Les McCann Ltd: Plays the Shampoo/In New York

McCann in his soul jazz mood on successive nights at the Village Gate – the sextet session featuring Stanley Turrentine...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Bruning/Griener/Petrowsky/Prins: Ornette Et Cetera

Ernest-Ludwig Petrowsky | Jean-Francois Prins | Michael Griener | Uschi Bruning

Several of Ornette Coleman's muchloved themes (‘The Sphinx’; ‘Beauty Is A Rare Thing;’ ‘Folk Tale’) dot a 15-song set that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012

Luciana Souza: Storytellers

Andy Haderer | Andy Hunter | Bastian Stein | Hans Dekker | Jens Neufang | Johan Hörlen | John Goldsby | John Marshall | Karolina Strassmayer | Luciana Souza

The São Paulo-born, LA-based, vocalist Luciana Souza's new collaboration with esteemed Grammy-winning arranger Vince Mendoza and the WDR big band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Oscar Peterson: Plays the Jimmy McHugh Songbook

The Brown/Thigpen version of the trio investigates the work of the great Irish-American songwriter, and shorn of lyrics focuses on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Partikel: Counteraction

Anna Cooper | Ant Law | Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Max Luthert | Sisi Lu

There's a lot of it about right now. From Laura Jurd's Dinosaur and Donny McCaslin's Bowie band right through to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ‘72

Charlie Haden | Keith Jarrett | Paul Motian

The three albums by this trio that date from 1967-71 and which were most recently reissued on Atlantic have a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Louis Sclavis: Characters on a Wall

Benjamin Moussay | Christophe Laverne | Louis Sclavis | Sarah Murcia

“When I work on a fresco by Ernest Pignon-Ernest or a photo by Guy Le Querrec, I’m dealing with a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2020