Don Menza Sextet: Live at Carmelo's

West Coast swing-meets-bop from the 1980s, this set adds unreleased material to alto and baritonist Menza's album Hip Pocket, providing...

Reviewed by Ayn Shipton in issue: June/2016

Gabor Szabo: The Sorcerer/More Sorcery

Bill Goodwin | Gabor Szabo | Hal Gordon | Jimmy Stewart | Lajos ‘Louis’ Kabok | Marty Morell

The handsome new Impulse! “2-on-1” series is returning some unfairly neglected music to the spotlight. Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo certainly...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

UNschooLED: Hymns for Robots

UNschooLED, an ex-Birmingham Conservatoire trio of ex-LOOP/Outhouse saxophonist Mark Hanslip, guitarist Barry Edwards and drummer Ed Gauden, perform an intuitive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Andy Laverne: Faith

Alex Sipiagin | Andy Laverne | Jason Tiemann | Mike Richmond

Pianist-composer Laverne's main claim to fame seems to have been a lengthy spell (along with friend and bassist Mike Richmond)...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2018

McCoy Tyner: Today and Tomorrow

Butch Warren | Elvin Jones | Frank Strozier | Jimmy Garrison | John Gilmore | McCoy Tyner | Thad Jones | Tootie Heath

With the discovery of lost material from John Coltrane’s classic quartet circa 1963 causing a stir recently, it’s worth casting...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2018

David Sanborn: Sanborn

Al Anderson | Art Baron | Bill Frisell | Charlie Haden | Dave Tronzo | David Sanborn | Don Alias | Greg Cohen | Herb Bushler | Hiram Bullock

Two slices of Sanborn from very different eras. The eponymous recording (his second release) finds the young gun fresh and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Bobby Hackett & Zoot Sims: Complete Recordings/Strike Up The Band

Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Cutshall | Bob Wilber | Bobby Hackett | Bucky Pizzarelli | Buddy Jones | Dave McKenna | Hank Jones | James Morreale | Jerry Dodgion

Not all leads stem from Dizzy Gillespie. Pre-bop there was a plethora of truly inspired trumpet players whose achievements are...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015

Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Fistfght at the Barn Dance

Andy Greenwood | Barnaby Dickinson | Barry Clements | Gareth Lockrane | Graeme Blevins | Henry Collins | Hugh Wilkinson | Ian Thomas | James Gardiner-Bateman | Jonny Mansfield

This is the first call London-based flute specialist and composer Gareth Lockrane's long awaited Big Band debut release on Michael...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Christian Muthspie: Seaven Teares (A Tribute to John Dowland)

Christian Muthspiel | Franck Tortiller | Matthieu Michel | Steve Swallow

In this reworking of the compositions of 16th century English Renaissance composer John Dowland, the 50-year-old Austrian trombonist Christian Muthspiel...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest

Anders Jormin | Anna Maria Friman | Arve Henriksen | Berit Opheim | Linn Andrea Fuglseth | Markku Ounaskari | Sinikka Langeland | Trio Mediaeval | Trygve Seim

Jazz goes all mythological on this album from Sinikka Langeland, a Norwegian musician deeply rooted in the folk traditions of...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2016