Alex Norris Quintet: Fleet From The Heat

The veteran straightahead NYC-based trumpeter Alex Norris has spent most of his career on the sidelines so this is only...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Don Byas: Don Byas at Nalen with Jan Johansson

Don Byas | Egil Johansen | Georg Riedel | Jan Johansson

These sessions, from the Nalen ballroom in Stockholm, were recorded in February 1962, and like the recordings from three years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012

Phil Haynes: No Fast Food

A McDonalds-free 2-CD live session served up by a versatile percussionist's trio with big guns for company, in Dave Liebman...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Slagr: DIRR

The Norwegian trio Slagr's floaty, ethereal folky sound evokes the detached tranquillity of desolate Nordic rural landscapes, yet there's a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

The Mike Westbrook Brass Band: The Paris Album

Mike Westbrook,

Mike and Kate Westbrook's archive is a rich record of six decades of Brit Jazz. Not that the couple and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2020

Fela Kuti: Live In Detroit 1986

Fela Kuti

Although there is always something special about the Nigerian icon's instantly identifiable Afrobeat – the ricochet of the shekere percussion,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012

Ramsey Lewis: Them Changes

Cleveland Eaton | Morris Jennings | Phil Upchurch | Ramsey Lewis

One of the great soul jazz pianists in funky electric mode at a very good live session at the Depot,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Mozdzer Danielsson Fresco: Polska

Lars Danielsson | Leszek Mozdzer | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra on ‘Are You Experienced?’ | Zohar Fresco

Although not as well known outside the UK's Polish community as he should be, Mozdzer enjoys phenomenal success in Poland,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2014

Marc Rossi Group: Mantra Revealed

Indo-Jazz fusion with pianist Rossi's mix of Carnatic classical, jazz-rock while dipping into elements of latin and Brazilian music....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Complete Studio Recordings

Art Blakey | Bobby Timmons | Cedar Walton | Curtis Fuller | Freddie Hubbard | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan | Wayne Shorter

Nothing quite epitomises prime cut hard bop as Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and this welcome Jazz Dynamics five disc package...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018