Jaco Pastorious: Word Of Mouth

Chuck Findley | Don Alias | Herbie Hancock | Howard Johnson | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Jaco Pastorious | John Clark | Michael Brecker | Mike Gibbs

One of the era's great albums: and not just because of Pastorious' bravura playing, of which of course there's plenty,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Jan Akkerman: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

Brown Hill | Coen Molenaar | Eric Vloeimans | Jan Akkerman | Marijn van den Berg | Shockwave | Wilbrand Meischke

A double-header of live CD and concert DVD, Akkerman fans will enjoy this run through of the illustrious guitar man's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2014

Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio: Bridges

Amir ElSaffar | Brad Shepik | Chris Komer | Jamey Haddad | Jamie Baum | Jeff Hirshfield | John Escreet | Navin Chettri | Sam Sadigurksy | Zack Lober

Lien's trio have been tottering on the brink of making an album that actually builds on, rather than equals, Hello...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling

Badal Roy | Cecil McBee | David Lee | Geeta Vashi | George Barron | James Mtume | Joe Beck | Lonnie Liston Smith | Sonny Morgan

Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Harry Connick Jr: Every Man Should Know

Harry Connick Jr

Presenting 12 self-penned songs for which he also wrote the arrangements, this latest from the singer-songwriter offers a little bit...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013

Shahin Novrasli: Bayati

Ari Hoenig | Nathan Peck | Shahin Novrasli

Novrasli was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1977 and by the age of three it was clear he was a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2014

Carl Perkins: Introducing Carl Perkins

Having overcome polio, Perkins’ dazzling keyboard brilliance was itself overcome by narcotic addiction, but these 1950s sessions find him in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Hampton Hawes: For Real!

A west coast jazz classic originally on Contemporary, with Harold Land and Scott LaFaro in the hard-swinging pianist's quartet. With...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

Creative Arts Ensemble: One Step Out

Kaeef Ruzadun

South London reissue specialist Pure Pleasure now seems to be repeating the superb job it’s been doing over the past...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Flying Machines: New Life

Alex Munk | Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson

Flying Machines are so much more than rock-powered improv. Yeah, we kick off ballistically with the roar and rampage of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2018