Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom

Alex Han | Christian Scott | Corey Fonville | Elena Pinderhughes | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields | Weedie Braimah

An album that's in hindsight a watershed moment because of its recording date. The multi-award winning trumpeter Christian Scott and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Dead Composers Club: Chopin Project

If they could hear this straight non-classical jazz quartet, co-led by saxophonist Noah Preminger and drummer Rob Garcia, certain dead...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

John Di Martino: Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

The compositions of Ellington's Sweet Pea survive an amiably personalised mainstream treatment from veteran jazz pianist Di Martino and his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Lizz Wright: Holding Space: Lizz Wright Live in Berlin

Ben Zwerin | Bobby Ray Sparks II | Chris Bruce | Ivan Edwards | Lizz Wright

When, during the pandemic, Lizz Wright found the time to listen back to some previous live dates, she was particularly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2022

Oscar Pettiford: Complete Big Band Studio Recordings

The two-volume In Hi-Fi set of Pettiford's orchestra, with creative charts by Gigi Gryce and Lucky Thompson, appeared on CD...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Booker Ervin | Bud Powell | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Doug Watkins | Ed Shaughnessy | Eric Dolphy | Hall Overton | Horace Parlan | J.R. Monterose

Like the Coltrane box reviewed this month, this comprehensive reissue from the mid-1990s is a classic of jazz history, now...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins Quintet With Horace Silver/Complete Birdland Broadcasts

Art Blakey | Coleman Hawkins | Connie Kay | Curly Russell | Horace Silver | Howard McGhee | Roy Eldridge

The Hawk and Little Jazz worked together so often that you could be excused for believing that they were joined...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2013

Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Dave Whitford | Frank Basile | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Ry Cooder: Soundtracks

Amy Madigan | Benmont Tench | Cesar Rosas | David Hidalgo | David Lindley | Jim Dickinson | Jim Keltner | John Hiatt | Jorge Calderon | Miguel Cruz

Here's a treat for blues ‘n’ movie freaks, and jazzers who want to know better. No less than seven Cooder...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesca Quartet: Phoenix

The Slovenian saxophonist Vasko Atanasovski leads a quartet that includes the inimitable tubist Michel Godard, and delivers an intoxicating old-world...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021