Jason Seizer: Cinema Paradiso

This German pianist goes to Hollywood with Enrico Morricone, Leonard Bernstein through to Alexandre Desplat among the composers given the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Album Interview: Soweto Kinch/LSO: White Juju

Gregory Hutchinson | Lee Reynolds | Nick Jurd | Rick Simpson | Soweto Kinch | the London Symphony Orchestra

With 2019's The Black Peril, saxophonist, rapper, composer and former history student Soweto Kinch further stretched the list of cultural...

Reviewed by John Fordam in issue: February/2023

The Modern Jazz Disciples: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

The Modern Jazz Disciples! Who they? Er, three cats from Cincinnati, another from Kentucky and an Irish drummer looking to...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Susan Alcorn: Soledad

Michael Formanek | Susan Alcorn

It's wholly fitting that this questing US pedal steel guitarist has chosen to interpret the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2015

Jimmy Smith/Lou Donaldson: Complete Studio Recordings

Drawn from selected Blue Note albums this catches Smith at his best for that label (1957-1963) paired with the on-form...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

James P Johnson: Carolina Shout

Al Casey | Ben Webster | Bessie Smith | Eddie Condon | Edmond Hall | Ethel Waters | Fats Waller | Frankie Newton | James P. Johnson | Max Kaminsky

James P has long been called ‘The Father Of Stride Piano’ (as one of the many subtitles of this album...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022

Ida Sand with Stockholm Underground: My Soul Kitchen

Singer Ida Sand hires an early version of Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit known as the Stockholm Underground to pump out...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Jason Rebello: Held

Jason Rebello

Who better than the man himself to describe his solo album. “As you get older you get interested in different...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016

Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020

Alexander Hawkins | Anthony Braxton | Neil Charles | Stephen Davis

While pursuing his path as an uncompromisingly original composer, Anthony Braxton has regularly visited ‘the tradition’ during his long career....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Jay Lawrence: Sonic Paragon

Anthony Wilson | Harry Allen | Jay Lawrence | John Patitucci | Renee Rosnes | Romero Lubambo | Terell Stafford | Yotam Silberstein

I was tempted to begin playing this disc at track 11, a cover of Hendrix's ‘Crosstown Traffic’. I love Hendrix...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2018