Ella Fitzgerald: Sings Ballads for Lovers

A well produced and edited compilation of Ella's singing from her great period in the 1950s and 60s, with a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Butcher Brown: Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey featuring Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND

Andrew Randazzo | Corey Fonville | DJ Harrison | Marcus ‘Tennishu’ Tenney | Morgan Burrs

From the moment the fat horn chords slide into Kendrick Lamar's soon-to-be-jazz-standard ‘How Much A Dollar Cost?’, it's clear Butcher...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: October/2022

Snowboy & The Latin Section: New York Afternoon

Dave Pattman | Davide Giovanni | Jen Kearny | Marc Evans | Neil Angilley | Nico Gomez | Paul Taylor | Pete Wareham | Sid Gauld | Snowboy

Three decades into his career and Snowboy has lent his inimitable skills on the skins to everyone from Airto Moreira...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2016

Ben Somers: Plant It Firmly In The Sand

Ben Somers | Mirko Scarcia | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles

Ben Somers stands apart on the scene: as well as being an excellent tenor sax player, he's also a very...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2023

Deadeye

Jonas Burgwinkel | Kit Downes | Reinier Baas

Downes has increasingly drawn upon his youthful organ studies which has led to some remarkable projects, be it, among others,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022

Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa

Alioune Wade | Amar Chaoui | Aziz Sahmaoui | Chiekh Diallo | Guilamme Pihet | Hervé Sambe | Martin Messonier | Stefan Heckel

The likes of Don Cherry, Randy Weston and Joe Zawinul all enjoyed memorable collaborations with Morocco’s legendary Gnawa, the religious...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Bugge Wesseltoft: Somewhere In between

Bugge Wesseltoft | Dan Berglund | Dhafer Youssef | Erik Truffaz | Håkon Kornstad | Joshua Redman | Mari Bone | Sidsel Endresen

When Bugge Wesseltoft was at the forefront of the ‘Nu-Jazz’ craze that swept Europe in the late 1990s and early...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Noah Preminger & Max Light: Songs We Love

Max Light | Noah Preminger

The songs that saxophonist Noah Preminger and guitarist Max Light like range from Joni Mitchell's ‘Marcie’ to what they heard...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2022

Anders Jormin: Pasado En Claro

Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Karin Nakagawa | Lena Willemark

This is best heard as world music, but with a definite ECM twist to it. The opening track, ‘Mist Of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2023

Lionel Loueke: Heritage

Dennis Hernandez | Lusito Quintero | Osmany Paredes | Rey Alejandre | Richard Bona | Roberto Quintero

Following two excellent recordings for Blue Note and extensive tours with Herbie Hancock, the gifted, idiosyncratic New York-based Benin guitarist-vocalist...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016