Best Jazz Albums of 2015 – Martin Chilton, The Telegraph

Recorded in Pasadena (at Caltech’s Baxter Lecture Hall in November 1975) this engaging album features clarinetist John Carter in a rare outing on soprano saxophone. As well as cornet player Bobby Bradford, the Los Angeles-based band has Robert Miranda on double bass and William Jeffrey on drums. A highlight is Circle, which shows how well Carter and Bradford weaved together musically. Another example of the value of the archives.