Gary Smulyan: Our Contrafacts

David Wong | Gary Smulyan | Rodney Green

Smulyan must be the number one US jazz baritone man these days. As such, he's in ready demand among his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2020

Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst: These Days

Daniel Casimir | Olly Sarkar | Robert Mitchell | Tess Hirst | Tobie Carpenter

Tess Hirst's words give barbed force to Daniel Casimir's open-hearted music, which is grounded in hard bop while exploring a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2019

Christian Scott: Stretch Music

Braxton Cook | Christian Scott | Cliff Hines | Corey Fonville | Corey King | Elena Pinderhughes | Joe Dyson Jnr | Kirs Funn | Lawrence Fields | Matthew Stevens

Although announced as the latest boy wonder trumpeter a good 10 years ago, Scott's star hasn't quite risen as high...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Joanie Sommers: Positively The Most/The Voice of the 60s/For Those Who Think Young

No amount of great arranging from Marty Paich and Nela Hefti can conceal Sommers’ inadequacy as a singer, only worth...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Al Caiola: Deep In A Dream/Serenade in Blue

A consummately-skilled guitarist who ought to be better known, Caiola was a NY session player, who excelled in jazz before...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Slowly Rolling Camera

Alice Hoskins | Chris Montague | Dave Stapleton | Deri Roberts | Dionne Bennett | Elliot Bennett | Ilona Bondar | Jasper Høiby | Jon Visanji | Katy Rowe

Initially seeming to be some distance from Dave Stapleton's previous work in an acoustic setting, this has a carapace of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2014

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Lina Oh

There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Hampton Hawes/Red Mitchell/Chuck Thompson: The Trio: Complete Albums

One of these three LPs was recently out on Avid's Hawes collection, but this set collects the original Contemporary issues...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

John Butcher/Barre Philips/Ståle Liavik Solberg: We Met – And Then

Barre Philips | John Butcher | Ståle Liavik Solberg

Recorded in the large assembly hall of percussionist Eddie Prévost’s old senior school in Deptford (where they were also screening...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2021

John Surman/Jack DeJohnette: The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon

Jack DeJohnette | John Surman

In the 1980s, Surman, DeJohnette and indeed ECM had grown to such iconic status that it's no surprise that then,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019