Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Dave Liebman is one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. He is also one of jazz great clinicians, educators and inspirational figures....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane

Billy Hart | Dave Liebman | Joe Lovano | Phil Markowitz | Ron McClure

Originally recorded in June 2007 for Jazz on 3 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Coltrane's death on 17 July...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2017

Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

Andy Clausen | Anwar Marshall | Dave Douglas | Riley Mulherkar | Willem de Koch | Zubin Hensler

Douglas’ musical curiosity knows no boundaries: here he is in essentially an all brass chamber context, with the fabulously talented...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Dave Liebman | Michel Delville | Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014

Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)

Alan Branscombe | Alf Reece | Bob Cornford | Chris Pyne | Dave Holland | Derek Watkins | Dick Hart | Henry Lowther | Henry Shaw | John McLaughlin

Kenny Wheeler, the inimitable Canadian trumpet maestro and quiet legend of post-1960s jazz composition, had been playing all kinds of...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Michael Feinberg: The Elvin Jones Project

Billy Hart | George Garzone | Leo Genovese | Michael Feinberg | Tim Hagans

Michael Feinberg's Elvin Jones project is more of a celebration of the bass players that played with Elvin Jones than...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2012

Judith & Dave O'Higgins Present: The Abstract Truth Big Band

Adrian Hallowell | Alistair White | Andy Greenwood | Chris Allard | Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Henry Armburg Jennings | Howard McGill | Judith O'Higgins

Oliver Nelson's aptly titled 1961 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth is such a perfectly-tuned iconic statement that it...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2015

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out Stereo and Mono Versions

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The recent release of Atlantic box-set John Coltrane Mono was a significant response to the many listeners who now feel...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2016

Dave Grusin: Kaleidoscope

Chris Beck | Cyrus Chestnut | Eric Wheeler

Grusin himself felt this session had a nightclub feel, and he's right, it's very unlike his more ‘studio’ session, so...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018