Jeff Parker & The New Breed: Suite For Max Brown

Jamire Williams | Jay Bellrose | Jeff Parker | Josh Johnson | Katinka Kleijn | Makaya McCraven | Nate Walcott | Paul Bryan | Rob Mazurek | Ruby Parker

I love everything about this album from Chicago multi-instrumentalist and Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, which is dedicated to his mother,...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Tom Barford: Bloomer

Billy Marrows | Dave Storey | Flo Moore | Rupert Cox | Tom Barford

Talk about fast-tracking; only last year the NYJO saxophonist Tom Barford was collecting his first-class honours as a Royal Academy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Chris Ingham Quartet: Hoagy

Enjoy this feast of timeless classics by Hoagy Carmichael presented with an infectious enthusiasm by the pianist/vocalist Chris Ingham and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions

Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner

Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021

Duane Eubanks Quintet: Things of That Particular Nature

Abraham Burton | Dezron Douglas | Duane Eubanks | Eric McPherson | Marc Cary | Steve Nelson

It's been more than a decade since trumpeter Duane Eubanks released his sophomore release Second Take on TCB records. During...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2015

Harvey Mason: Chameleon

Ben Williams | Bill Summers | Chris Turner | Christian Scott | Corey King | Harvey Mason | Jimmy Haslip | Kamasi Washington | Kris Bowers | Mark de Clive-Lowe

Miles may have exhorted us never to look back, but Mason's pulled off a cunning ploy with his splendid Concord...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014

Roman Filiu: Musae

Adam Rogers | Dafnis Prieto | David Virelles | Marcus Gilmore | Reinier Elizarde | Roman Filiu

Roman Filiu was born in Cuba, but lived for several years in Madrid where much of the music on this,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Mário Laginha Trio: Jangada

Alexandre Frazão | Bernardo Moreira | Mário Laginha

At age 61, Laginha has built a secure reputation in his native Portugal, both as vocalist Maria João’s accompanist of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022

Gerry Gibbs: Songs From My Father

Buster Williams | Chick Corea | Christian McBride | Geoff Keezer | Gerry Gibbs | Kenny Barron | Kyeshie Gibbs | Larry Goldings | Patrice Rushen | Ron Carter

This fine and devotedly-crafted double album is a vehicle for much thrilling jazzmaking by a superb cast, but it has...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2021

David Forman: Like A Rainbow

Andy Panayi | Ben Castle | Chris Laurence | Conor Chaplin | Darren Beckett | David Forman | Georgia Mancio | Imogen Ryall | Joe Locke | Mark Edwards

David Forman is a remarkable autodidact, now in his nineties, who for five decades was a full-time Brighton dentist and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2022