Don Pullen: Richard's Tune

Don Pullen

Apart from his self-produced duo recordings with drummer Milford Graves, this was Pullen's first album under his own name, done...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2014

Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones

As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Kazemde George: I Insist

Adam Arruda | Isaac Wilson | Kazemde George | Sami Stevens | Tyron Allen II

Brooklyn-based now, George is a Caribbean American saxophonist from Berkeley, California, who says these 10 compositions reflect the ‘experiences, circumstances...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021

Nabatov, Reijseger, Schubert: Square Down

European master musicians, of both a free and more lyrical jazz, share musical ideas, either energetic or ruminative in sonic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Graham Bleasdale: I Believe

This attractive sounding British singer-songwriter, with influences from old soul-pop through to gospel and country, is backed by British jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Omara Portuondo and Chucho Valdes: Omara and Chucho

Chucho Valdes | Omara Portuondo | Rossio Jimenez Blanco | Wynton Marsalis

A pairing of musical greats that makes perfect sense – indeed, why did it take them so long this time?...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011

Adam Kolker: Beckon

The Brooklyn Jazz Underground tenor saxophonist-composer keeps it sweet and warm in an, at times, folkish cool chamber jazz sextet...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Ralph Towner: My Foolish Heart

Ralph Towner

Few guitarists remain as instantly recognisable as Towner, especially on his signature 12-string. A little annoyingly that much underrated instrument...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017

Nitin Sawhney: Live At Ronnie Scott's

Bill Laurance | Jonathan Harvey | Marijus Aleksa

“For any musician growing up in or around London, especially if you’ve grown up loving great improvisation, as I did,”...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2020

Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum III

Jan Lundgren | Paolo Fresu | Richard Galliano

Mare Nostrum (literally, ‘Our Sea’) is the latin for the Mediterranean. It’s also the name of a powerful European supercomputer...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2019