Chicago Yestet: Not There Yet

Led by trombonist Joel Adams, this easy-going 13-piece combines hip-hop, neo-soul and brass-led fusion with groove-jazz soloing but it leans...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Wojtek Mazolewski: Smells Like Tape Spirit

The Polish bassist-leader is a member of the grungy jazztronica band Pink Freud but this is an acoustic quintet preferring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011

Stan Getz Quartet & Quintet: The Complete Roost Studio Sessions

Al Haig | Bill Crow | Bob Carter | Don Lamond | Duke Jordan | Eddie Safranski | Frank Isola | Horace Silver | Jimmy Raney | Joe Gallaway

Stanley The Steamer has been gone close on quarter-of-a century, so late-comers can be excused for assuming that Stan Getz's...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014

Peter Bruun's All Too Human: Vernacular Avant-Garde

Kasper Tranberg | Marc Ducret | Peter Bruun | Simon Toldam

Thirty-something Danish drummer Peter Bruun has worked with some real heavyweights, including Evan Parker, Tim Berne and Django Bates. Here...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2018

Sam Barnett Quintet: New York-London Quintet

Laurence Wilkins | Michele Montolli | Sam Barnett | Timur Pak | Zoe Pascal

I thought the young man cradling a sax on the CD sleeve looked young; almost young enough to be in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2017

Broken Shadows

Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson | Tim Berne

Paying homage to Ornette Coleman isn’t something new for The Bad Plus, of which this band contains three - yes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

Gert Zimanowski: Ubuntu — We Are One

This German multi-instrumentalist bassist and songwriter's ensemble features the Hammond organist Barbara Dennerlein and singer Bill Ramsey on a session...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Sinne Eeg: Don't Be So Blue

Fine sounding Danish singer-songwriter in a mainstream post-Joni mould, on her fifth album backed by acoustic piano trio....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Luis Perdomo: Spirits and Warriors

Alex Sipiagin | Billy Hart | Luis Perdomo | Mark Shim | Ugonna Okegwo

It's a sad state of affairs that when Perdomo tours Europe with his own trio he is unable to get...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2016

Lee Konitz: Standards Live

Florian Weber | Jeff Denson | Lee Konitz | Ziv Ravitz

Lee Konitz presents a well-scrubbed image on the cover picture here, so clean-shaven and tidy that it's hard to imagine...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2014