Keith Loftis: Simply, Loftis

Dallas-born saxophonist Loftis, who's locked into a tried-and-tested modernism, is a mainstay of the Roy Hargrove band and the trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Terje Rypdal & The Chasers: Blue

Audun Kleive | Bjorn Kjellemyr | Terje Rypdal

You can hear the Hedvig Mollestad Trio purring at this reissue: as ever this is an ECM no frills revisit,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019

Marty Paich: Four Classic Albums

Paich's work has been reissued in a scattershot way lately, reviewed in this column on CDs from Verse, Warner Jazz,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Bill Laurance: Swift

Achilles Liarmakopoulos | Bill Laurance | Christiana Liberis | Curtis Stewart | Henry Flory | Irena Momchilova | Kallie Ciechomski | Maria Im | Maria Jeffers | Matt McLaughlin

Keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance, an integral founding and current member of Snarky Puppy yet increasingly stepping out as a...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2015

Benjamin Croft: 10 Reasons To…

Andy Davies | Benet McLean | Benjamin Croft | Henry Thomas | Mario Castronari | Peter Miles | Saleem Raman | Tristan Maillot

Croft sounds like an original, adept at working with artists as diverse as Lesley Garrett and The Platters. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2019

Jimmy Smith: Bashin' – The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith/Plays Fats Waller

Jimmy Smith

This was the Big One. Since 1956, ‘The Incredible One’ had achieved all he possibly could during a busy eight-year...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Roberto Fonseca: Yo

Alex Kelly | Assane Mboup | Baba Sissoko | Damien Francisco Nueva | Etienne Mbappe | Fatoumata Diawara | Faudel Amil | Felipe Cabrera | Joel Hierrezuelo | Munir Hossn

While the sight of the Cuban pianist stripped to the waist may have echoes of Voodooera D'Angelo, this is not...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Okonski: Magnolia

Aaron Frazer | Michael Isvara Montgomery | Steve Okonski

Dinner jazz for candlelit nights, this mini-album, six tracks over about 25 minutes, has a casual intimacy that's hard not...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Till Brönner and Bob James: On Vacation

Bob James | Christian von Kaphengst | David Haynes | Harvey Mason | Till Brönner | Wolfgang Haffner | Yuri Goloubev

My, this album from German trumpeter/vocalist Till Brönner and US keyboard maestro Bob James, now in his ninth decade, is...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2021

Wes Montgomery: In The Beginning

For the most part these two CDs document Montgomery's pre-fame years when he split his waking hours between being a...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016