August CD Reviews

All these albums are reviewed in the August 2012 issue of Jazzwise - to read them all click here to subscribe here and get a FREE CD.

New Releases

Adam Baldych And The Baltic Gang – Imaginary Room –            ACT           

Gavin Barras Quintet  – Day Of Reckoning  – ASC

Jonathan Blake – The Eleventh Hour - Sunnyside

Gábor Bolla  – Find Your Way – ACT

John Butcher/Mark Sanders –­ Daylight – Emanem

Cabal Trio  – Cabal – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Neneh Cherry/The Thing – The Cherry Thing – Smalltown Supersound

Michael Garrick’s Lyric Ensemble – Home Thoughts – Jazz Academy

Golovnev Quartet – What Matters – Tippin Records

Tom Harrell – Number Five – High Note

Peter Herbert – Joni – Col Lengo

Iskra – Liberté Egalité Humanité ­– Country & Eastern

Joe Jackson – The Duke – EarMusic           

Dave Jones Quartet ­– Resonance – www.davejonesjazz.com

Frederik Kronkvist – New York Elements – Connective

Kwartet – Seventh Daze – Marquetry Records

David Linx/Maria Joao – A Different Porgy & Another Bess – Naïve

James Morrison – Snappy Too – Morrison Records

Hans Ludemann – Die Kunst Des Trios 1-5 – BMC

Branford Marsallis Quartet – Four MFs Playin’ Tunes – Marsallis Music

Per-Oscar Nilsson Group ­– Now! – Connective

Aruan Ortiz Quartet – Orbiting ­­– Fresh Sound New Talent

John Pizzarelli – Double Exposure – Telarc

Steve Plews Trio – Secret Spaces Volume Two – ASC

Ben Powell – New Street – Ben Powell Music

Evan Parker/John Edwards/Eddie Prévost – Meetings With Remarkable Saxophonists - Volume 1 – Matchless Recordings

Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things  – Clean On The Corner – 482 Music

Hannes Riepler – The Brave – Jellymould

Roller Trio – Roller Trio – F-IRE Records

Matthias Schrief – Six, Alps & Jazz – AC

Louis Scalvis Atlas Trio – Sources – ECM

Daryl Sherman – Mississippi Belle: Cole Porter in the Quarter – Audiophile

Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers – Cuneiform

Alister Spence/Raymond MacDonald – Stepping Between The Shadows – Rufus

Mike Stern – All Over The Place – Heads Up

Tingvall Trio –­ Vägen – Skip

Tony-Joe Bucklash – Bucklash ­– Foghorn Records

Chad Wackerman – Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations – AbstractLogix

Veryan Weston/Ingrid Laubrock/Hannah Marshall – Haste – Emanem

Wild Card – Everything Changes – Top End Records

Cassandra Wilson – Another Country – eOne

WorldService Project  – Live from London / Alfie Ryner – Match&Fuse

New Releases Short Cuts

Boi Akih – Circles in Square Society – Bromo

Dead Belgian – Love & Death: the songs of Jaques Belle – Limefield

Gabrielle Ducomble – J’ai Deux Amours – MGP Records

Leo Gandelman  – Vip Vop – Far Out Recordings

Garzone/Tiberi – Audacity – Sundance Records

Jerry Granelli Trio – Let Plunge Records

Anne Mette Iversen – Poetry Of Earth – BJU Records

Jazz Soul Seven – Impressions of Curtis Mayfield – BFM Records

Zlatko Kauicic Kombo / Orkester – Rara ose Sound Firlds for T.S – RTV

Paul Van Kemenade – Kaisei Nari ­–            (no label)

Taeko Kunishima – Late  – 33Records

Andrea Marcelli Trio – Sundance  – Storyville

Szilárd Mezei Septet – 100 tü hossza – SLAM

Ondatrópica – Ondatrópica – Sound Way

Alan Pasqua Twin Ball – Two Piano Music of Bill Evans – BFM

Nicky Schrire  – Freedom Flight – Circavision

Jacques Schwarz-Bart Quartet – The Art Of Dreaming – Aztec

The Skatalites – Walk With Me – Wrasse

Studio Tan – Studio Tan – Prophone

Tony Tixier – Dream Persuit – Space Time

Randi Tytingvag  – Grounding – Ozella Music

Reissues

Bill Evans – The Way To Play – Proper Box

Bill Evans – Live At Art D’Lugoff’s Top Of The Gate – Resonance

The Chris Anderson – Inverted Image/My Romance – Fresh Sound

Walter Benson Quintet  – Out of  This World – Fresh Sounds

Eddie Lockjaw Davis/Johnny Griffin Quintet – Tough Tenors – Promising Music

Miles Davis Quintet – With John Coltrane In Copenhagen 1960 – In Crowd

Michael Garrick – Bovington Poppies – Garrick Archive

Stan Getz – Four Classic Albums – Avid Jazz

Andy Jaffe – Manhattan Projections – Big Round

Keith Jarrett – Sleeper – Tokyo April 16,1979 – ECM

Barney Kessel – To Swing Or Not To Swing – Poll Winners

Roland Kirk – Spirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965 – 76 – Rhino

Frank Lowe ­­– The Loweski –ESP-Disk

Herbie Mann – Four Classic Albums – Avid Jazz

Geoffrey Oryema – Exile – Real World

Art Pepper – The Quintessence – Fremeaux & Associes

Bobby Scott Trio – Early Sessions – Fresh Sound

Cecil Taylor – Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! – MPS

Mel Tormé – Swings Shubert Alley/Back In Town – Phoenix

Various Artists – British Traditional Jazz – Lake

Marzette Watts – Marzette & Company – ESP-Disk.

Bobby Wellins Quartet – Birds Of Brazil – Hep Jazz

Frank Wright             – Blues For Albert Ayler  – ESP-Disk

Robert Wyatt – The End Of an Ear – Esoteric

Re-issue short cuts

Hoagy Carmichael – Sings – Phoenix

Rosemary Clooney – Swing Around Rosie/Rosie Solves The Swinging Riddle! - Phoenix

Bing Crosby – The Jazz Sides – Phoenix

Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis – Poll Winners

The Slide Hampton Octet – Somethin’ Sanctified/Sister Salvation/Live At Birdland – Fresh Sound

Milt Jackson – Plenty, Plenty, Soul – Poll Winners

Quincy Jones and Orchestra – Around The World/I Dig Dancers            – Fresh Sound

Jimmie’s Joys – Joy: The Complete Golden and Okeh Recordings (1923 – 25) – Jazz Oracle

Fapy Lafertin & LeJazz – 94-96 the recordings – lejazzetal

Peggy Lee w Orchestra/Quincy Jones  – Blues Cross Country/If You Go - Fresh Sound           

Joe Newman – The Complete Swingville Sessions             – Fresh Sound

Red Nichols – The Complete Brunswick Recordings – Jazz Oracle

Anita O’Day – Trav’lin’ Light/All The Sad Young Men – Fresh Sound

Astor Piazzolla – Manos Hadjidakis            – Warner Jazz

Jimmy Rushing – Four Classic Albums – Avid Jazz

Pee Wee Russell – Four Classic Albums Plus – AVID Jazz

Triton            – Wilderness Of Glass­ – JAZZCDS

Various – US Jazzmen in Europe 1926-1929 – Challenge Records

Various – Ska - 40 Jamaican Rude Boy Classics – Treasureable

Monica Zetterlund – Don’t Dream of Anyone But Me – El Records