Continuing from where the fine 1992 recording You Never Know (ECM 1497) left off, Time Being features a range of intelligently turned, emotionally compelling compositions by Erskine and Taylor. Kenny ...

This slight piece of Ellinqtonia was first issued on Stateside SL 10073, and reviewed by our Editor in May, 1964. The music was written for the Century of Negro Progress Ex­position staged in Chicago ...

Miles Davis arrived in Paris for a tour at the end of November 1957 and whilst there, working on the music for Louis Malle’s film Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud, played at L’Olympia and at the Club St ...

These three obviously enjoy working together and as leader Hersch says the group never play anything that all of them 'don't feel good about'. However, ...

No doubt this is aimed at those of us who hang about at the end of a Woody Allen movie, getting in people’s way as the credits roll. All those tasty little bursts of music that are gone before you can ...

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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this cheerful set is the absence of Dave Holland. Although he toured with the trio this summer, all the acoustic bass sounds here are synthesised. Were funds ...

Just when you start to get fed up with family tribute albums, up pops Calasanitus by Leon Foster Thomas. Contrary to all too sentimental contemporary journeys, the steel-pan player’s homage to his ...

Certainly a beautiful Steinway grand piano and a first-class sound balance helps tremen­dously but even allowing for these exceptional aids Julian Joseph proves to be a very impressive pianist on this ...

Despite Beatlemania and the Swinging Sixties fizzing all around it, the London jazz scene at that time was full of young bands determinedly getting themselves together. Group Sounds Five was one of ...