J-Sonics: Different Orbits

Andy Davies | Clement Regert | Gabor Dornyei | Grace Rodson | Jon Newey | Matt Telfer | Mike Flynn

This debut album from Londonbased latin-jazzers, J-Sonics is packed with supremely tight grooves, ear-catching arrangements, an unashamedly feelgood spirit and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2015

Brian Charette: Jackpot

Bill Stewart | Brian Charette | Corey Weeds | Ed Cherry

Charette is an intriguing Hammond man. In recent years he’s mixed strings and electronics with the gruffer soul of the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022

Mark de Clive-Lowe/The Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra: Take the Space

This top nu-jazz producer rises to the challenge of putting the lush, Thad Jones-like big band arrangements of this Dutch...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Down For The Count: At The Cold Stores

Max Fagandini

I first heard this local ensemble and their tidy versions of swing classics a year or so ago, their youthful...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2021

Yotam Silberstein: The Village

It's mostly the New York-based Israeli guitarist-composer's infectious latin influences that go into this recording, which features a high-quality band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Sonny Fortune/Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Great Friends

Billy Harper | Billy Hart | Reggie Workman | Sonny Fortune | Stanley Cowell

A supergroup if ever there was one. Between them Sonny Fortune, Stanley Cowell, Billy Harper, Reggie Workman and Billy Hart...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022

Duke Jordan: Three Classic Albums

Duke Jordan gets the Avid treatment, bundling material from the Signal, Blue Note, Savoy and Charlie Parker labels under his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth

Dan Wilson

On much of this album there's a fine live feeling in the studio. ‘The Reconstruction’, has some burning solos from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2021

Les McCann: The Shout

One studio and one live session from 1960 by one of the most gospelly pianists in jazz, on which the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Ronnie Foster: Reboot

Chris Foster | Jerry Lopez | Jimmy Branly | Lenny Castro | Luis Conte | Michael O’Neil | Ronnie Foster

Reboot couldn’t be more aptly named, as it marks Foster’s Blue Note return some fifty years after his debut Two...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022