SKRIM: The Crooked Path

Ståle Storl⊘kken | Morten Qvenild | Stian Westerhus | Gard Nilssen

Featuring a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Scandi-jazz legends (Storl⊘kken and Westerhus you’ll know of course, Qvenild and Nilssen have plied...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Kuzu: All Your Ghosts in One Corner

Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis leads an exhaustingly relentless free jazz sax-guitar trio set; performing live immediately pre-lockdown, the recording has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Arturo O'Farrill: Dreaming In Lions

Vince Cherico | Rodriguez Platiau | Adam O’Farrill | Carlos Maldonado | Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan | Alison Deane | Arturo O’Farrill | Rafi Malkiel | Zack O’Farrill | Travis Reuter

It feels like Arturo O'Farrill's Blue Note debut has been a long time coming - the Cuban-descended New York pianist,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Jorge Rossy Trio: Puerta

Robert Landfermann | Jorge Rossy | Jeff Ballard

The band leader Jorge Rossy made a name for himself as a drummer with Brad Mehldau’s original trio after having...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

George Webb’s Dixielanders: The Pioneers of British Traditional Jazz

Roy Wykes | Eddie Harvey | Art Streatfield | Wally Fawkes | Reg Rigden | Harry Brown | Humphrey Lyttelton | Roy Beckwith | Owen Bryce | George Webb

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings described these recordings as ‘the Dead Sea Scrolls of British traditional jazz’, representing as...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Houston Person: Live in Paris

Houston Person | Peter Bernstein | Willie Jones III | Ben Paterson

Person and company were in Paris for Festival Jazz a la Villette, their set recorded by France Musique and how...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Zutty Singleton: Icon of New Orleans Drumming – The Heartbeat of Jazz 1924-1969

Pee Wee Russell | Jelly Roll Morton | Dick Wellstood | Charles Creath | Zutty Singleton | Louis Armstrong | Buster Bailey | Roy Eldridge | Wingy Manone | Bill Coleman

Louisiana-born drummer Arthur ‘Zutty’ Singleton [1898-1975] – his nickname was Creole for ‘cute’ – first made his way in New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Ill Considered: Liminal Space

Sarathy Korwar | Tamar Osborn | Leon Brichard | Ahnanse | Idris Rahman | Theon Cross | Emre Ramazanoglu | Robin Hopcraft | Liran Donin | Ralph Wylde

Ill Considered have pursued an underground course, releasing nine raw improvised albums – including a Christmas LP, natch – in...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Chris Connor: The Early Years: Singles and Albums 1952-56

Al Young | Joe Puma | Barry Galbraith | Kai Winding | Connie Kay | Oscar Pettiford | Stan Kenton | John Lewis | Milt Hinton | Zoot Sims

For a singer who was quite as popular, well-known and long-lived as Chris Connor, touring in late 1950s packages with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Bud Powell: 1962 Copenhagen

Bud Powell | Don Byas | Jørn Elniff | Ørsted Pedersen | Brew Moore | Niels-Henning

Amidst all the travails of the period before his early death in 1966, the year 1962 seems to have been...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022