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

Shai Maestro: The Dream Thief

Jorge Roeder | Ofri Nehemya | Shai Maestro

Shai Maestro is the most acclaimed of all the pianists to have warmed the piano stool for the Israeli star...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net

Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez | John Patitucci | Wayne Shorter

It was 44 years ago that Wayne Shorter made his debut on the Blue Note label, as a precocious 26-year-old...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013

Carsten Dahl Experience: Humilitas

Carsten Dahl | Jesper Zeuthen | Nils Davidson | Stefan Pasborg

Carsten Dahl is one of Denmark's leading jazz musicians, and he has a chest full of awards that Danish Grammies,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2010

Alabaster de Plume: Gold

Alabaster de Plume | Conrad Singh | Danalogue | Dilip Harris | Donna Thompson | Elly Condron | Falle Nioke | Hannah Miller | James Howard | Kenichi Iwasa

Manchester’s Alabaster de Plume is one of the most underrated artists working in Britain, a jazz-folk boundary-pusher with a quiet,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022

Claudio Fasoli Four: London Tube

The veteran Milan-based saxophonist Claudio Fasoli titles his compositions after London tubes from Knightsbridge to Leytonstone and meanders a little...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018