Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Following the epic, turbo-charged one man showcase on the retrospective 10 Years Solo Live and the exhilarating contemporary prog electronica...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Steve Lacy Five: Blinks… Zurich Live 1983

Irène Aebi | Jean-Jacques Avenel | Oliver Johnson | Steve Lacy | Steve Potts

Save for the omission of pianist Bobby Few, this band is essentially the Steve Lacy Sextet, with whom the saxophonist...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2011

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

Adam O'Farrill | François Moutin | Matt Mitchell | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Rudy Royston

This is Mahanthappa's third CD for the ACT label, and easily his best. He is on home territory, exploring the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015

Christian Vuust: Urban Hymn

Aaron Parks | Ben Street | Christian Vuust | Jeff Ballard

This is a very classy tribute album – not, as former indie-kid readers may hazard a guess, to The Verve's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2014

The Philadelphia Orchestra, cond. Christian Mačelaru: Wynton Marsalis: The Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2)

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Not only was Wynton Marsalis a very fine classical trumpet soloist, but he has written brilliantly for symphony orchestra in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2021

Roller Trio

James Mainwaring | Luke Reddin-Williams | Luke Wynter

It comes as no surprise to learn that this trio of young twentysomethings met while studying at Leeds College of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2012

Rod McKuen: In The Beginning

Vocalist, poet, songwriter – it's the last of McKuen's skills that has endured, but if you want a collection of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

Delfeayo Marsalis: The Last Southern Gentlemen

Delfeayo Marsalis | Ellis Marsalis | Herlin Riley | John Clayton | Marvin Smitty Smith

Cutting through the hype, the pretentious ‘social commentary’ of the liner notes, the sub-GCSE poems and short stories of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Bill Evans: Köln Concert 1976

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Eliot Zigmund/Marty Morell

Although it's nice to have another album called Köln Concert, I can't pretend that it's anything particularly unusual. Recorded at...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

The Rob Dixon Trio: Coast to Crossroads

Charlie Hunter | Ernest Stuart | Mike Clark | Rob Dixon

Saxophonist Rob Dixon's confident phrasing and poised sense of time are grounded in four years playing with Illinois Jacquet's big...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2018