Ralph Bowen

Cliff Almond | Jim Ridl | Kenny Davis | Ralph Bowen

Ralph Bowen was first heard with OTB (Out of the Blue) on Blue Note back in the 1970s. He's now...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2017

Gene Krupa: Five Classic Albums Plus

The epitome of genuine excitement, drummer Gene Krupa was a true jazz giant and an inspirational figure who was at...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014

Album Interview: Arun Ghosh: A South Asian Suite

Aref Durvesh | Arun Ghosh | Chris Williams | Idris Rahman | Liran Donin | Nilesh Gulhane | Pat Illingworth | Rastko Rasic | Zoe Rahman

A South Asian Suite is only the third release under Arun Ghosh’s name since Northern Namaste (2008). Originally commissioned by...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: November/2013

Booker Ervin: The Good Book: The Early Years 1960-62

Addison Farmer | Al Harewood | Andrew Cyrille | Bill Barron | Booker Ervin | Booker Little | Charli Persip | Dannie Richmond | Ed Shaughnessy | Eric Dolphy

Ervin is scarcely remembered these days except by fans of Mingus, and possibly of mid-1960s Randy Weston, but those who...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018

Ahmad Jamal: The Quintessence

The packaging of this distillation of Jamal's first (and now out-of-copyright) decade of recordings mentions an alleged influence on Bill...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015

Pat Metheny: Watercolors

Dan Gottlieb | Eberhard Weber | Lyle Mays | Pat Metheny

He looks from the cover, bucktoothed and smiley, hair awry and flares unfeasibly fanned. It’s hard to imagine this is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2019

Eberhard Weber: Encore

Ack van Rooyen | Eberhard Weber

Smoke and mirrors? Or an intriguing re-creation of past musics? Either way this is a significant release, not least because...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2015

Cynthia Felton: Freedom Jazz Dance

Cynthia Felton | Cyrus Chestnut | Ernie Watts | Terri Lyne Carrington | Wallace Roney

From the opening spiritual, ‘Oh Freedom’, Cynthia Felton's four-octave voice sweeps you up in its virtuosic embrace. On this, her...

Reviewed by Peter Quin in issue: October/2012

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra: The Hits Collection – 1935-58

Allan DeWitt | Allan Storr | Bonnie Lou Williams | Buddy Gately | Cliff Weston | Connie Haines | Edythe Wright | Frank Sinatra | Jack Leonard | Jo Stafford

It’s best first to consider the subtext here. As the strapline has it, these are the Dorsey band’s hits, running...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Echoes Of Swing: Dancing

Bernd Lhotzky | Chris Hopkins | Colin T. Dawson | Oliver Mewes

This is the third album, and the second on ACT, by this Europe- based group of mainstreamers to come my...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016