Twelve: Years Ago

Darius Brubeck | Dave O'Higgins | Matt Ridley | Wesley Gibbens

The Donald Fagen-like Alex Ligertwood fronts a band that features Belgian pianist Éric Legnini and blends groove bop, chamber ensemble,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

John Etheridge: Twenty: The Best of Sweet Chorus

Andy Crowdy | Christian Garrick | Dave Kelbie | John Etheridge | Malcolm Creese

Ah, such sweet surprises from an Etheridge project dedicated to the timeless magic of Stephane Grappelli. As Etheridge points out,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2019

Duduvudu: The Gospel According To Dudu Pukwana

Andrew Scott | Annie Whitehead | Dave Draper | Ernest Boykin | Hadley Louden | Harry Beckett | Jim Peterson | Jim Warshauer | Jody Scott | Josh Jones

As the strand of South African gigs at last year's London jazz festival showed, the spirit of the alto saxophonist...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

Grant Green: Green Street

Ben Tucker | Dave Bailey | Grant Green

Certain classic Blue Note recordings do not age as well as others and this is an example. Early in his...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Matyas Gayer Trio: Westbourne Park

Dave Green | Matyas Gayer | Steve Brown

I’ve heard Hungarian-in-London Gayer subbing in Five-Way Split and playing for the Nat Steele-Mark Crooks Quintet, and have been impressed...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2024

Andy Hague: Coming Of Age

Andy Hague | Ben Waghorn | Chris Jones | Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam

Trumpeter Hague is a luminary of the potent Bristol jazz scene, as are Waghorn and Blomfield, of course. Their collective...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2019

John Coltrane Quartet: The Complete November 19, 1962 Stockholm Concerts

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

Jazz history in general has been constructed around a finite number of iconic recordings and in the case of John...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

John Coltrane Quartet: Stockholm Concerts – Complete November 19, 1962

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

Eight of these 16 tracks were on the first Coltrane white-label bootlegs back in the 1970s, while two of the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2016

Noah Preminger/Broken Shadows/Gregory Tardy/Bill Frisell/Billy Lester/Kenny Werner/Hank Roberts: Newvelle Records: Seaso

Adopting a unique marketing strategy, first put into effect in 2015, Newvelle Records, co-founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Album Interview: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: American Adventure

Bill Evans | Clarence Penn | David Kikoski | David Liebman | Donny McCaslin | Joe Locke | Joel Frahm | Kurt Elling | Mike Stern | Randy Brecker

Thumbing through the achievements of Tommy Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra it's necessary to pinch yourself to make...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2014