Eddie Harris/Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming

Vince Mendoza

ELM is owned and operated by Ellis and Jason Marsalis. The original Homecoming session dates back to 1985 and was...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Art Pepper: Gettin' Together

Art Pepper | Ben Tucker | Bill Perkins | Conte Candoli | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Rowles | Mel Lewis | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Wynton Kelly

This must be the umpteenth reissue of Pepper’s second summit with a Miles Davis’ 1960 rhythm section in recent years....

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Noah Haidu: Doctone

Noah Haidu

Haidu, a former Kenny Barron student, considers the late Kenny Kirkland – who died in 1998 aged only 43 –...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2020

Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way

Alana Sinkëy | Alfredo Rodriguez | Carlos Sarduy | Cimafunk | Denis Cuni | Juanlu Montoya | Marcelo Woloski | Michael Olivera | Regis Molina | Yarel Hernandez

Famed for his attacking, take-no-prisoners playing style, Cuban-born pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez has a back story that has become...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2023

John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets

JC Sanford | John Hollenbeck | Matt Moran | NDR Big Band | Patricia Brennan

For two decades the New York-born, Montreal-based drummer-percussionist John Hollenbeck has led a dynamic and inspired multi-Grammy nominated large ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2024

Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Dianne Reeves | Fuller | John Patitucci | Mimi Jones | Rudy Royston | Shamie Royston | Shirazette Tinnin | Terri Lyne Carrington

Although her membership of Beyoncé's band is one of the prime talking points in the alto saxophonist's career, one could...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods

Charles Mingus | Clem DeRosa | George Barrow | Jackson Wiley | John LaPorta | Rudy Nichols | Teo Macero | Thad Jones

The music on this disc emerged from the final sessions at which Mingus largely used conventionally notated music before moving...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Eric Gale: Part Of You/Touch Of Silk

Allen R. Toussaint | Anthony Jackson | Arthur Blythe | Bernadette Randle | Charles Earland | David Barard | David Grusin | Eric Gale | Gary Brown | Grover Washington Jr

What's not to love about Eric Gale? Every student guitarist should disappear into a deep dark hole with his releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Marcus Miller: Renaissance

As a musician with a producer's ear, Miller has always been able to find the right combination of singers and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015

Oscar Brown, Jr.: Between Heaven and Hell/Sin & Soul

David ‘Panama’ Francis | Floyd Morris | George Duvivier | Oscar Brown, Jr.

Perhaps it was the sheer breadth of his activity and his refusal to be pigeon-holed – as well as being...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2018