Dakota Staton: Complete Early Years 1955-58

Again, frustratingly this largely duplicates Avid's cheaper and equally recent Five Classic Albums, save for the contents of the In...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Dizzy Gillespie: Have Trumpet, Will Excite!

One of Gillespie's most celebrated Verve albums with Junior Mance and Les Spann, this new incarnation includes alternate takes and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum II

Jan Lundgren | Paolo Fresu | Richard Galliano

The rare combination of trumpet- accordion-piano worked handsomely on Mare Nostrum back in 2007, and it works just as well...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2016

Quincy Jones: Four Classic Albums Plus

If you don't have the reissues of This is How I Feel and Great Wide World from Fresh Sound, Pollwinners,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine + Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call

Larry Coryell

The easy headline with The Last Call is that this is Coryell's last concert recording; within weeks he was dead....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021

Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes

Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge

The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Emilia Mårtensson: Ana

Andreas Wildhagen | Børre Mølstad | Celio de Carvalho | Christian Meaas Svendsen | Jon Rune Strøm | Julie Kjær | Ketil Gutvik | Klaus Holm | Mats Äleklint | Paal Nilssen-Love

Immensely subtle arrangements, exquisitely beautiful songs, and, at its centre, a voice of quite remarkable expressive depth. With her second...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2016

Debashish Bhattacharya: Hawaii To Calcutta: A Tribute To Tau Moe

Alan Akaka | Benny Chong | Bobby Ingano | Debashish Bhattacharya | Jeff Peterson | Subhasis Bhattacharya

Suckers for projects with thematic hooks need look no further than this Bengali slide whiz's Hawaii To Calcutta to get...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: March/2017

Christian McBride's New Jawn

Christian McBride | Josh Evans | Marcus Strickland | Nasheet Waits

Bassist McBride is a kind of latter-day Pied Piper, a jazz activist as well as a virtuoso player, constantly teaching,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Gerald Trimble: Uncharted

Gerald Trimble makes pioneering use of the Viola da Gamba, an instrument with Moorish and medieval origins, retracing its roots...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016