Satoko Fujii: Spring Storm

A new trio for this exploratory Berlin-based pianist who rarely fails to deliver something interesting and invigorating. Here her trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Kevin Fitzsimmons: Working Day and Night

This suave yet versatile London-based R&B-tinged jazz crooner swings a Michael Jackson song convincingly among an eclectic range of standards...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Marc Copland and John Abercrombie: Speak to Me

John Abercrombie | Marc Copland

This pair of esteemed 60-something veterans could be said to have mellowed appreciably since their earliest collaboration on the 1973...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Parisien-Peirani-Schaerer-Wollny: Out of Land

Andreas Schaerer | Emile Parisien | Michael Wollny | Vincent Peirani

Though this was the first performance by this intriguing line-up in Bern in 2016, it is already being hailed a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa

Adam Fairhall | Corey Mwamba | Nat Birchall | Nick Blacka | Paul Hession

For anyone who still believes in the transformative and inherently spiritual nature of jazz, most forcefully proposed by John Coltrane...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2014

Joe Alexander: Blue Jubilee

A forgotten man who made just this one album, Alexander is a strong and tender tenorist, ably backed here by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013

The Pollyseeds: Sounds Of Crenshaw Vol. 1

Adam Turchin | Andrew Gouche | Brandon Eugene Owens | Chachi (v) | Chris Cadenhead | Craig Brockman | Curly Martin | Kamasi Washington | Kenneth Crouche | Marlon Williams

To Pimp A Butterfly could just be the decade's most important album for US jazz at least, Kendrick Lamar's imprimatur...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2017

Michel Petrucciani: Both Worlds Live

Anthony Jackson | Denis Leloup | Flavio Boltro | Hague Philharmonic Orchestra | Michel Petrucciani | Stefano DiBattista | Steve Gadd

It hardly seems 17 years since Petrucciani passed, though doubtless there's a whole younger generation of fans who’ve grown up...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2016

Jim Hall: Three Classic Albums Plus

This excellent double-album compendium captures the earliest recordings of Jim Hall, the quintessential example of a guitarist's guitarist. You don't...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2019

Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet: Complete Live Recordings, 1962-65

The horn players' chemistry worked with both US and UK (Holloway/Laird/Ganley) rhythm sections, making this a great way to remember...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014