Dee Dee Bridgewater: Midnight Sun

André Ceccarelli | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Ira Coleman | Thierry Eliez

Despite the wildly differing treatments, ranging from the sumptuous orchestral setting of Johnny Mercer’s title track (from Dear Ella) to...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2012

Jan Lundgren Trio: Flowers of Sendai

This Swedish pianist has worked at the top level of European jazz and here is in trio with an elegant,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Aruan Ortiz Trio: Live In Zurich

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor

About three years ago, this writer was asked by Cuban pianist Ortiz to do the liner notes for an album...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2018

Album Interview: Jeff Ballard: Fairgrounds

Chris Cheek | Jeff Ballard | Kevin Hays | Lionel Loueke | Mark Turner | Pete Rende | Reid Anderson

Jeff Ballad has a curriculum vitae as long as your arm, touring and recording with a host of notable names...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Roy Eldridge/Ella Fitzgerald: In Concert

Ella Fitzgerald | Gus Johnson | Herb Ellis | Lou Levy | Roy Eldridge | Wilfred Middlebrooks

In between Jazz at the Philharmonic dates in early 1959, Norman Granz sent out a slimmed-down package of Ella Fitzgerald...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023

Bernie Worrell: Elevation: The Upper Air-Solo Piano

Bernie Worrell

As all British schoolchildren, past and present, know, Dr Who regenerates every few years and steps out of his Tardis...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2014

VEIN: The Chamber Music Effect

Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenz | Thomas Lähns

Swiss trio VEIN are masters of musical interplay. Over the course of the last decade they've developed fruitful collaborations with...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2017

Benny Goodman: The Sound Of Music

Dave Green | Henry Lowther | Jim Mullen | Stu Butterfield

Goodman plays songs from the movie with mixed results, but at their best, Fred Karlin's arrangements provide sound jazz fodder...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010

Uri Caine Ensemble: George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue

Barbara Walker | Chris Speed | Jim Black | Joyce Hammann | Mark Helias | Ralph Alessi | Theo Bleckmann | Uri Caine

Definitely an album of two halves, this begins with a 22½ minute sextet adaptation of the Gershwin opus. This is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

The Kandinsky Effect: Synesthesia

This Paris-based power trio, led by the American saxophonist Warren Walker, sounds like a rocking-out version of now defunct punk-jazzers...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013