Multiquarium Big Band featuring Biréli Lagrène: Remembering Jaco

André Charlier | Benoît Sourisse | Biréli Lagrène | Claude Egéa | Denis Leloup | Frédéric Borey | Lucas Saint-Cricq | Nicolas Charlier | Peter Erskine | Pierre Drevet

As modern-day bass behemoth Christian McBride once quipped: “There's bass before Jaco, and after Jaco…” and for many low-enders, getting...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/2020

Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan

Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Pepper Addams | Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Yusef Lateef

As far as titles go, nothing could be more appropriate for a character as brilliant and turbulent as Charles Mingus....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024

Polly Gibbons: Many Faces of Love

Anthony Wilson | Christian Howes | James Pearson | Kevin Axt | Polly Gibbons | Ray Brinker | Roger Kellaway | Tamir Hendelman

Hot on the heels of last year's brilliant My Own Company, this new album from vocalist Polly Gibbons presents 12...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015

Food: Mercurial Balm

Christian Fennesz | Eivind Aarset | Iain Ballamy | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Prakash Sontakke | Thomas Strenen

This is an impressive follow-up to Food's 2010 debut on the ECM label, Quiet Inlet. More ambitious in scope, it...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim: Harlem

Abdul Khaliq-Hassan | Christian Sievert | Ed Epstein | Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim | Hasse Poulsen | Hugo Rasmussen | Jacob Andersen | Jamil Westergaard | Karsten Sorensen | Steve Berrios

When he was known as Juan Amalbert and led the Latin Jazz quintet in the 1960s, Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim worked with...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Half Seas Over

Bringing together the art of folky singer-songwriting and jazz can often bear fruit. But this union of Brooklyn-based pianist Elan...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

Michael Wollny Trio: Oslo

Christian Weber | Eric Schaefer | Geir Lysne | Michael Wollny | Norwegian Wind Ensemble

The Leipzig-based pianist Michael Wollny has been the main attraction of the ACT label's stable of emerging German jazz musicians...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Michael Dease: Decisions

Glenn Zaleski | Michael Dease | Rodney Whitaker | Tim Green | Ulysses Owens

This is arguably the best straightahead – but totally modern – CD of the year for this reviewer. Dease now...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2015

Ulysses Owen Jnr Big Band: Soul Conversations

Alexa Tarantino | Andy Gatauskas | Benny Benack III | Charles Turner III | Chris Glassman | Daniel Dickson | Diego Riviera | Erena Terakubo | Eric Miller | Gina Benalcazar

Ulysses Owen's impressive sideman credits range from Terence Blanchard to Kurt Elling, with whom he won a 2010 Grammy for...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2021

Diana Krall: This Dream Of You

Diana Krall

Fans of Diana Krall's most recent solo album, her 2017 release Turn Up the Quiet, will be delighted to hear...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2020