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Gianfranco Menzella: Dedicated To Bob Berg

Derek Ansell -
Italian saxophonist Menzella leads piano, bass and drums in an authoritative tribute to the playing and repertoire of the late Bob Berg

Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band Live At Smalls 1996

Roger Farbey -
Live set that parallels the 'most important and influential jazz recording of the 21st century' features Mark Turner and Brad Mehldau

Pat Metheny – Stories Beyond Words

Nigel Jarrett -
Bob Gluck is an academic but also a musician whose performance of Metheny charts helped inform this survey of the guitarist's work

Paul Kendall: My Shining Hour

Peter Gamble -
Fleet-fingered baritonist and piano trio take a swinging, unreconstructed approach to a set of familiar standards

Giovanni Guidi: A New Day

Michael Tucker -
The Italian pianist leads tenor, bass and drums in loosely framed music expressing tenderness, reverie and yearning

Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 / Bonus After Hours 1950

John White -
On this unissued 1958 Danish radio broadcast Clark Terry and Johnny Hodges stand out and Paul Gonsalves perhaps surpasses his Newport solo

Natasha Blackwood: Love Songs For Good Machines

Ian Lomax -
Canadian singer and saxophonist is on the edge of jazz in a set recalling Stacey, Kent, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux and Joni Mitchell

Adrian Rollini: His 26 Finest 1927-1938

Hugh Rainey -
After apparently learning bass sax in two weeks, Rollini made it effective in jazz and later added hot fountain pen and goofus to his arsenal

Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader: Time For 2

Gordon Jack -
The singer is heard enjoying Cal Tjader's Latin grooves and at her world-weary best on the 40-bar non-blues I’m Not Supposed To Be Blue Blues

Sam Newbould: Homing

François van de Linde -
Alto-toting Englishman in Hilversum leads a sextet in tunes with a hard-bop harmonic sensibility and swing and rock rhythms

El Comite: Carrousel

Darren Arthurs -
Latin rhythm and instrumentation underpin tunes with modern-jazz structure and harmony played by Ibrahim Maalouf, Harold Lopez-Nussa et al

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Derek Ansell -
Another reprise of one of Coltrane's post-Vanguard chillout albums, here adding two additional tracks, bright red vinyl and new sleeve notes

Espial: The Act Of Noticing

Barry Witherden -
Saxophone, piano, vibes and percussion play mellifluous, impressionistic, mostly improvised music in Seaford, East Sussex

Olli Ahvenlahti: Euro Visions

Fred Grand -
The holy trinity of melody, harmony and rhythm has underpinned the Finnish veteran's work, whether in jazz or a certain song contest

Sweet Megg: Bluer Than Blue

Brian Payne -
Supple-voiced and expressive Nashville-based singer is joined by skilled soloists in a set mixing western swing, country, jazz and blues

Marta Sánchez: Perpetual Void 

Andy Hamilton -
Madrid-born, NY-resident pianist, a member of David Murray's quartet, leads her trio in a set characterised by harmonic and metric turbulence

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet at Cologne Jazz Week

Matty Bannond -
The American trumpeter cooled down a hot Cologne, following the less is more principle, while his drummer rattled the hardware energetically

Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus

Nic Jones -
Quintet featuring Lol Coxhill, Bruce Turner, Michael Garrick, Dave Green and Alan Jackson wanders the line between bop and free

Martin Denny: Exotica

Matthew Wright -
The received wisdom might be that jazz is the font of eclecticism but Hollywood covered almost everything before Coltrane and the Beatles

The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins

Derek Ansell -
The famously self-examining saxophonist wrote telegraphic notes on his musical and spiritual progress and how much he fancied Gene Tierney

Barnes, Spillett, Brown and Tracey at the Garibaldi in Northampton

Matthew Wright -
Saxophones, bass and drums didn't miss a piano or guitar in a set of standards at a venue reminding of London's New Merlin's Cave of yore

Bjørn Charles Dreyer: Fourth Wave And The Moon

Fred Grand -
The mostly adagio, mostly modal music of US-born, Norway-raised guitarist Dreyer blends Nordic reflection with touches of Americana

Lindigo: Oyé Maloya

Nigel Jarrett -
Lindigo sing maloya, a music of Réunion that has stylistic and possibly demographic links with the American field hollers that led to jazz

Dave Douglas: Gifts

Simon Adams -
Trumpeter Douglas offers new insights into Strayhorn, Trump and his own dream sequences, where the third of the night is the problem solver

Kevin Figes: You Are Here

Roger Farbey -
Former Keith Tippett saxophonist pays tribute to his boss with fresh interpretations of such as King Crimson's single Cat Food

Johnny Griffin Quartet: Live In Valencia 92

Peter Gamble -
Banned from Spain by Franco in 1974, Griffin returned in freer times with nothing new but a stout reminder of his muscular musicality

Oded Tzur: My Prophet

Michael Tucker -
Yearning tenor saxophonist leads a set of mostly modal originals enlivened by the harmonic superimpositions of pianist Nitai Hershkovits

Sarah Vaughan: Her 50 Finest, 1944-1962

John White -
Another Vaughan collection, this of her 'Old Testament' work, suggests that the DJ-bestowed tag “the divine one” was not hyperbole

Russ Brannon: Soujourn

Ian Lomax -
Canadian guitarist influenced by Larry Carlton and George Benson ploughs the quasi-dormant smooth-jazz furrow with a sense of individuality

Ricky Alexander: Just Found Joy

Hugh Rainey -
Reedman Alexander is joined by Jon-Erik Kelso and others in a refreshing swing recital recalling Bechet, Wilber, Eldridge and Cootie Williams

Dave Brubeck Jazz: Red Hot And Cool

Gordon Jack -
As early as 1955 Dave Brubeck was using such brainy devices as three against four, canon, 12-key modulation and baroque contrapuntalism

Ricardo Pinheiro: Tone Stories

François van de Linde -
Eloquent, dark-toned guitarist redolent of Kurt Rosenwinkel plays tuneful standards with Chris Cheek, Michael Formanek and Jorge Rossy

Steven Nichols: From Dust

Darren Arthurs -
Trumpeter Nichols leads tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums in what often sounds like an update on early 60s Miles and Blue Note

Wayne Shorter: Introducing

Derek Ansell -
The saxophonist might be best known for his work with Weather Report but there were indicators of his individuality in his earliest years

Ron Caines, Martin Archer, AXIS: Practical Dreamers

Barry Witherden -
No tubas or banjos, but an electro-acoustic framework and real-time laptop improvisations, all topped off with saxophone

Jazz At The Ballroom: Flying High

Brian Payne -
Swing and GAS preservationists JATB present Champian Fulton, Jane Monheit and others singing and swinging songbook classics
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