Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio: Across The Imaginary Divide

Béla Fleck | Jason Marsalis | Marcus Roberts

Jazz fans no longer swap banjo jokes – “Banjo for sale: recently tuned” or “Q: What do you call a...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012

David Gilmore: Numerology: Live at Jazz Standard

Christian McBride | Claudia Acuña | David Gilmore | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Luis Perdomo | Miguel Zenón | Mino Cinelu

Guitarist Gilmore is one of the most accomplished on today's scene and has worked with artists as diverse as Wayne...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013

Brian Jackson: This Is Brian Jackson

Aurelio Valle | Barnett Williams | Ben Romans-Hopcraft | Binky Brice | Brian Jackson | Camelia Hartman | Carlos Sanchez | Claire Solomon | Daniel Collas | Domenica Fossati

The strong affirmation of the title can be taken a number of ways. Here is the work of an immensely...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2022

Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis 2

Dan Nicholls | Jonas Kullhammar | Lucy Railton | Otis Sandsjö | Per Johansson | Petter Eldh | Ruhi-Deniz Erdogan | Tilo Weber

In the arms of Otis Sandsjö the tenor saxophone is a many-splendored thing. His suck-blow-suck fluctuations that sensitively held Lucia...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: July/2020

Michael Garrick Trio with Don Weller: You've Changed

Alan Jackson | Chris Laurence | Don Weller | Michael Garrick

Recorded live at Wavendon the quartet works through just six numbers, each given an extended airing, this CD reissue...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Johnny Dankworth: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid's double-CD combines Dankworth's The Vintage Years, Collaboration, and England's Ambassador of Jazz albums with an EP taken from the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019

Engines Orchestra + Phil Meadows Group: Lifecycles

Alice Zawadzki | Claire Sedd | Connie Chatwin | Conor Chaplin | Eddie Morgan | Elliot Galvin | Emily Davis | Gennie Joy | George White | Gregor Riddel

Phil Meadows is a young Bolton-born jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger with big ideas. Only two years out of London's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Tomasz Stańko: December Avenue

David Virelles | Gerald Cleaver | Reuben Rogers | Tomasz Stańko

Listening to the enigmatic Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stańko is not something to be taken lightly. His mesmerising new album...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Sunna Gunnlaugs: The Dream

Eivind Opsvft | Loren Stiltaan | Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs

Suna Gunnlaugs is one of Iceland's leading jazz musicians, and The Dream is her sixth album, having made her debut...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Tricotism: Nostalgia

Craig Milverton | Nigel Price | Sandy Suchodolski

These three have done this sort of thing before, inspired by the great Peterson, Pass, Ray Brown trio, and here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2021