Fonnesbæk & Kauflin: Standards

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

Justin Kauflin, the blind pianist whose close relationship with Clark Terry just before he died was made into the documentary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas: Valse Sinestre

Billy Drummond | Dayna Stephens | Dezron Douglas | Micah Thomas

Billy Drummond last released an album under his own name on the Criss Cross label in 1996 – Dubai featured...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2022

Ballister: Worse for the Wear

Run for the hills: here comes Ballister featuring the established Chicagoan saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg Holm and Norwegian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra: African Space Program

Carlos Ward | Cecil Bridgewater | Cecil McBee | Charles Sullivan | Dollar Brand | Enrico Rava | Hamiet Bluiett | John Stubblefield | Kiane Zawadi | Roland Alexander

Released in a series of Enja Jazz Classics, this is one of only two big-band albums directed by the then...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014

Louis Hayes/Junior Cook Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall/Hamburg 1976

Junior Cook | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw

Two months after their appearance at Hamburg’s Onkel Pö’s nightclub, this same line-up taped Ichi Ban for the Dutch Timeless...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019

Bob James Trio: Espresso

Angela Scates | Billy Kilson | Bob James | Dave Stewart | Hugh Char | Luisito Quintero | Mark Falchook | Michael Palazzalo

Highly prolific on record, Bob James is usually described as a fusion specialist and as the king of pop/jazz and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2018

Cormac Kenevy: Turning Skies

Formerly a Candid label artist, this understated Dublin-born MOR jazz vocalist dips into a fairly interesting repertoire for his third...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Tom Ridout: No Excuses

Alexandra Ridout | Anastasia Stahlmann | Anita Kurowska | Anna Drysdale | Billy Marrows | Cecilia Bignall | Didier Osindero | Elliot Pooley | Flo Moore | Phelan Burgoyne

I know how it goes. You're straight out of music college with a couple of awards under your belt. It's...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2018

John Pizzarelli: Midnight McCartney

Bucky Pizzarelli | Harry Allen | John Pizzarelli | Larry Goldings | Martin Pizzarelli

I've never quite taken to Pizzarelli's effete-sounding, Sinatra-lite vocals while fully realising that I'm in a minority, probably, of one....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2015

Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt: Boss Tenors/Dig Him

Two 1961 Verve LPs reissued back-to-back on this single CD represent the high-water mark of the collaboration between these two...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013