Oliver Lake: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint And Soul Note

Andrew Cyrille | Baikida Carroll | Belden Bullock | Cecil Brooks | Charles Eubanks | Donald Smith | Fred Hopkins | Geri Allen | Kevin Eubanks | Michael G. Jackson

Co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet and member of the influential Black Artists Group, Oliver Lake is, along with Arthur...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014

Tom Arthurs: One Year

Markku Ounaskari | Richard Fairhurst | Tom Arthurs

When they made their fine Postcards from Pushkin duo album seven years ago, the expat British trumpeter Tom Arthurs and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2018

Sao Paulo Underground: Beija Flors Velho E Sujo

A leading Chicago avant-jazz trumpeter (Rob Mazurek) a Brazilian post-Tropicalia percussionist (Mauricio Takara) and cosmic jazz synth player (Guilherme Granado)...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Jimmy Rogers: Blues Greats

Twenty tracks by the doyen of Chicagoan 1950s guitar and vocal blues, with Little Walter and Muddy Waters in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Claire Martin/Ray Gelato: We’ve Got A World That Swings

Claire Martin | Dave Newton | Dave Whitford | Ray Gelato | Sebastian De Krom | Sebastian de Krom

Dedicated to the memory of Mark Murphy, this 13-track collection of swing, R&B and jazz standards from Martin and Gelato...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2016

Dewa Budjana: Surya Namaskar

Dewa Budjana | Gary Husband | Jimmy Johnson | Kang Iya | Kang Pupung | Mang Ayi | Michael Landau | Vinnie Colaiuta

Budjana is by all accounts a pop hero in his native Indonesia. But having just turned 50 life's starting all...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here

Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Pete Horsfall | Will Cleasby

Kansas Smitty's is a Hackney bar as well as a band, a musical utopia whose name was conjured from speakeasy...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020

Benet McLean: The Bopped and The Bopless

Ashley Slater | Aydenne Simone | Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Donald Gamble | Duncan Eagles | Gareth Lockrane | Isabella-Maria Asbjornsen | Jason Yarde | Jonathan Harvey

Can you be too talented? Long championed by the much-missed Jack Massarik, McLean has somehow slipped beneath the radar that...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

James Taylor Quartet: People Get Ready

Andrew McKinney | James Taylor | Mark Cox | Natalie Williams | Noel McKoy | Pat Illingworth

All credit to Taylor for his ongoing musical odyssey. He and the Quartet will long be associated with those funk...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Kenny Barron/Dave Holland Trio: Without Deception

Dave Holland | Johnathan Blake | Kenny Barron

Effortless mainstream jazz eloquence has been pianist Kenny Barron’s calling card for 40 years. Without Deception renews the pianist’s dialogue...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020