Jerry Granelli: What I Hear Now

The Canadian-born veteran drummer was a prominent and broad-minded figure on the LA music scene of the 1960s and he's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Red Nichols: Complete Brunswick Recordings Vols 4-6

‘What Wall Street crash?’ you may wonder, as Nichols’ prolific recording career romps unabated through 1929 and 1930 as the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Verneri Pohjola Quartet with Aki Rissanen: Ancient History

Aki Rissanen | Anti Lötjönen | Joonas Riippa | Jukka Perko | Tatu Rönkkö | Verneri Pohjola

Trumpeter Verneri Pohjola is perhaps the best known of a younger generation of Finnish musicians who are making an impact...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2012

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet: The 21st Century Trad Band

Austin Johnson | David Potter | Jason Marsalis | Will Goble

Jason is the youngest of the performing Marsali and probably better known as a drummer, but here he concentrates throughout...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2015

Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke

Ari Roland | Keith Balla | Pasquale Grasso | Samara Joy | Sheila Jordan

Reviewing Grasso’s last release, a solo guitar album dedicated to Bud Powell, and showing artistic interaction between subject and performer...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Wadada Leo Smith and Louis Moholo–Moholo: Ancestors

Louis Moholo-Moholo | Wadada Leo Smith

Between them, these two veterans can lay claim to around a century of playing and, as the title suggests, this...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Diego Pinera: Despertando

Based in Germany, this Uruguayan drummer-percussionist’s quintet offers a genuinely different latin-orientation based on his nativeland’s rhythms of Candombe, mionga...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Amir Elsaffar Rivers Of Sound: Not Two

Amir Elsaffar | Amir ElSaffar | Carlo De Rosa | Craig Taborn | Dena Elsaffar | Fabrizio Cassol | George Ziadeh | Jason Adasciewicz | JD Parran | Miles Okazaki

Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist Elsaffar expands his renowned sextet Two Rivers into a 17-piece orchestra, Rivers Of Sound, and the result is...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017

Steve Lodder: …Tied Up with Strings

Steve Lodder

You know Steve Lodder. You know his work, anyway. The pianist and keyboardist has fruitfully combined his musical talents with...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015

Mara Rosenbloom Quartet: Songs from the Ground

This New York City-based pianist’s compositions call on singer-songwriter-like form for inspiration and she performs with a quartet that features...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013