Chase Baird: A Life Between

Antonio Sanchez | Brad Mehldau | Chase Baird | Dan Chmielinski | Nir Felder

You might think you're listening to an intro to a guitar rock classic from the opening to 31-year-old Utah-born saxophonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Duke Ellington: In Gröna Lund 1963

A live Stockholm recording of a typical Ellington concert of the time, it suffers from occasionally poor balance, dropouts, wow...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart: All About That Basie

Alvin Walker | Bobby Floyd | Carmen Bradford | Clarence Banks | David Keim | Doug Lawrence | Doug Miller | Endre Rice | Eric Reed | Freddie Green

The Basie band has gone through a number of incarnations in the years since his death in 1984, of which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Miles Okazaki: Trickster

Anthony Tidd | Craig Taborn | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman

The cover art is of a raven and fox sculpted from paper, and Miles Okazaki is keen to tell you...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2017

Human Element

Arto Tunçboyaciyan | Gary Novak | John McLaughlin | Matthew Garrison | Scott Kinsey

Late great keyboardist and sonic innovator Joe Zawinul's groove fuelled, pan-global blueprint, established via Weather Report then his long running...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2011

Dayna Stephens: Reminiscent

Aaron Parks | Dayna Stephens | Harish Raghavan | Mike Moreno | Rodney Green | Walter Smith III

The final track of this excellent contemporary mainstream CD is a rousing re-make of the Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt two-tenor sax...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2015

Stefano Bollani: Napoli Trip

The flamboyant Italian jazz pianist pays homage to Napoli in his inimitably colourful and high spirited style fronting a Neapolitan...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Duke Ellington: The Popular Duke Ellington

The 1966 Ellington band reprises material from all over the Ducal repertoire, and infuses pieces it had played from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline: Music from the Early 21st Century

Dan Weiss | Kris Davis | Matthew Brewer | Ralph Alessi | Tineke Postma

After accumulating a series of excellent albums with bassist Steve Swallow, Saft and Previte ring the changes with the introduction...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Red Mitchell/Harold Land Quintet: Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The Atlantic reissue programme contains some real gems, and this set with the two principals paced by the energetic and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014