Angélique Kidjo: Spirit Rising

Angélique Kidjo | Christian McBride | Daniel Freedman | Dominic James | Magatte Sow | Marvin Sewell | Thierry Vaton

Featuring a selection of Kidjo originals and covers including the Curtis Mayfield classic ‘Move On Up’, Spirit Rising is the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2012

Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday

David Wang | Kenny Washington | Pasquale Grosso | Samara Joy | Sullivan Fortner | the McLendon Family

Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024

Johannes Berauer: Vienna Chamber Diaries Plus Strings

Bernhard Schimpelsberger | Christian Bakanic | Florian Eggner | Gwilym Simcock | Johannes Dickbauer | Klaus Gesing | Wolfgang Muthspiel | Yuri Goloubev

Austrian composer Johannes Berauer rightly considers himself an ambassador between classical and jazz musicians, between composed and improvised music', and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022

Yong Yandsen/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Paal Nilssen-Love: Hungry Ghosts

Full-throttle free-improv with impressive Malaysian saxophonist Yandsen making a cathartic jazz noise alongside a feral Nordic bass and drums pairing....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Christian Chevallier: Le Prince du Jazz Français

A real revelation – the big band and small group work of France's leading pianist and arranger from 1955-59, with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness

Brad Mehldau | Joshua Redman

The influential contemporary pianist and saxophonist's musical relationship goes back to the early 1990s. It was then that a fledgling...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me

Clarence Penn | Kandace Springs | Scott Colley | Steve Cardenas

Following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, and 2018’s Karriem Riggins-produced Indigo, the singer that Prince said possesses ‘a...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Bob Mintzer | Christian McBride | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | John Scofield | Kenny Werner | Larry Goldings | Nguyên Lê | Peter Erskine | Vince Mendoza

Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Warren Wolf: Convergence

Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | John Scofield | Warren Wolf

The vibraphonist has some really heavyweight company for this, his third US album, including his boss from the Inside Straight...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: July/2016

Alicia & Michael Olatuja: Olatuja

Alicia Olatuja | Christian Sands | David Rosenthal | Femi Temowo | Joshua Keitt | Magatte Sow | Michael Olatuja | Obed Calvaire

Although vocalist Alicia and bassist Michael Olatuja are accomplished artists in their own right, their collaborations bring out the best...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024