Omar Sosa & NDR Big Band: es:sensual

Ernesto Simpson | Ingmar Heller | Marcio Doctor | Omar Sosa

There is an argument to say that Sosa, talented as he is, has over-recorded in the past decade or so....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

George Duke: DreamWeaver

Allen Kaplan | BeBe Winans | Chill | Christian McBride | Daniel Higgins | Erik Zobler | Everette Harp | Gary Grant | George Duke | Gorden Campbell

By his own admission, this is Duke’s “most honest” album in years, born as it is from the tragic loss...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Mike Westbrook: Starcross Bridge

Mike Westbrook

Wait 40 years for a solo piano recording from Mike Westbrook, then, stone me, two come along virtually at once....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2018

Nikki Yeoh: Solo Gemini

Nikki Yeoh

Circumstances knocked Yeoh off-course in 2004, when her son's difficult birth and its aftermath interrupted a diverse and prolific career....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2016

Sarah Vaughan: Birdland: Live in New York

Rather like the Parker covered above, these airshots are quite a trial to listen to, especially when, by 1952, Vaughan...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Randy Weston: Destry Rides Again/Little Niles

Two of Weston's quirky late-50s albums packaged as a single CD, with Little Niles the celebrated standout, for the title...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2011

Horace Silver Quintet With Art Farmer: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

Not quite what it says on the tin. This would have proved to be much better focused had it been...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Braun Whalum Brown: BWB

This trio of veteran smooth jazz dudes must be able to churn this stuff out in their sleep by now....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Milford Graves and Bill Laswell: Space/Time – Redemption

Bill Laswell | Milford Graves

There's no doubting the eminence of these two musicians, presented here as a duo for the first time on record....

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015

Randy Weston: The African Nubian Suite

Alex Blake | Ayanda Clarke | Ayodele Maakheru | Billy Harper | Candido | Cecil Bridgewater | Howard Johnson | Jane Cortez | Lewis Nash | Lhoussine Bouhamidy

The inclusion of the long deceased Melba Liston in the credits is not a minor detail. The trombonist penned the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017