Caroline Scott: Khoalesce

Caroline Scott | Duncan Eagles | John Turville | Kevin Glasgow

Like Lorraine Baker, Scott is a Trinity Laban graduate who has cut her teeth at Oliver’s bar and has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019

Etta James: The Dreamer

Terminally ill at the time of writing, the R&B vocal legend's final album sees her bow out gracefully with old...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Matt Mitchell: førage - The Music of Tim Berne

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell plays piano in Tim Berne's Snakeoil ensemble and clearly knows his leader's music inside out - which is...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017

Various Artists: Ska: 40 Jamaican Rude Boy Classics

An excellent cross section of Ska from 1963-6 with many more than the usual suspects but not forgetting Don Drummond...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Russell Gunn & The Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra: The Sirius Mystery

Post-bop trumpeter Russell Gunn leads an explosive contemporary big band on the second album in an arcane conceptual trilogy dedicated...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Renee Rosnes: Written In The Rocks

Bill Stewart | Peter Washington | Renee Rosnes | Steve Nelson | Steve Wilson

It’s 30 years already since Canadian-born Rosnes descended on the New York scene, making an immediate impact with, among others,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid Recital

Darius Jones | Matthew Shipp

Four years on from Cosmic Lieder, Shipp and Jones reprise the title but add a new heading to suggest a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

John Coltrane: Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Edition)

John Coltrane

I knew someone would eventually jump on this anniversary idea (it's been around in the classical and the wider arts...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2020

Espen Eriksen Trio ft Andy Sheppard: In the Mountains

Andreas Bye | Andy Sheppard | Espen Eriksen | Lars Tormod

Eriksen followed pianists Tord Gustavsen and Helge Lien into Silje Nergaard’s band. One of Scandinavia’s top jazz singers, she is...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022