Various Artists: Heart of Mine: Songs Of Ross Lorraine

Claire Martin | Elliott Henshaw | Gwyneth Herbert | Ian Shaw | Laurence Cottle | Liane Carroll | Luca Manning | Mike Walker | Rob Barron | Sara Colman

I first came across the songwriting of Ross Lorraine on Day Dawns, the wonderful debut album by Melissa James (reviewed...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2022

Skelton Skinner Allstars Septet: The Odd Couple

Alan Barnes | Colin Skinner | Gordon Campbell | Jeremy Brown | Matt Skelton | Mike Lovatt | Rob Barron

Functioning as a kind of break-out group from the Skelton-Skinner Big Band, this smaller line-up released a well-regarded first album,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017

Jenny Green: Always & Forever

Adrian York | Chris Traves | Claire Martin | Jenny Green | Neville Malcolm | Rob Barron | Winston Clifford

This second album from vocalist Jenny Green scores highly for its imaginative song list, excellent core band that features pianists...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2021

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Kenny Burrell: Mess Of Blues

Billy Butler | Grady Tate | Grant Green | Johnny Hodges | Kenny Burrell | Les Spann | Milt Hinton | Mundell Lowe | Osie Johnson | Wild Bill Davis

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Roy Assaf: Respect Vol 1

Eric Alexander | Greg Gisbert | Greg Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers | Roy Assaf | Roy Hargrove | Vanderlei Pereira

The son of an Egyptian mother and Moroccan father, Roy Assaf, 30, is yet another highly gifted, classically trained musician...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2012

Gregory Tardy: Standards & More

Gregory Tardy | Jaimeo Brown | Keith Brown | Philip Dizack | Sean Conly

Tenorist Tardy doesn’t make many recordings as a leader these days but several sessions with the late, sadly-missed Andrew Hill...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013

The Benny Green Trio: Benny's Crib

Aaron Kimmel | Anne Drummond | Benny Green | David Wong | John Jones | Veronica Swift

By the time he was 30, Green had played piano for Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2020

Kenny Dorham Quintet with Jackie Mclean: Complete Recordings

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

Currently, these two albums appear to be among the most widely circulated public domain artifacts and every time they are...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018

Anders Koppel & Kenny Werner: Breaking Borders # 1

An unusual sounding improvising duo of Hammond organ and piano develop eerie, harmonically impressionistic soundscapes that touch on things like...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: Second Set

Art Taylor | Bobby Timmons | Clarence Sharpe | Curtis Fuller | George Coleman | Horace Silver | Lee Morgan | Paul Chambers | Pepper Adams | Philly Joe Jones

This set cherrypicks three Blue Note dates and one Riverside session, from 1955-1961, rather than (as some other such Avid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019