Laura Jurd's Dinosaur: To The Earth

Conor Chaplin | Corrie Dick | Elliot Galvin | Laura Jurd

Though Laura Jurd has kept on raising the high bar she set all the way back on her Landing Ground...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Album Interview: Manu Katché: Manu Katché

Jim Watson | Manu Katché | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Tore Brunborg

Four albums in on ECM and French-Ivorian drummer Katché has made some major changes to his band – a self-imposed...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable

Ambrose Akinmusire | David Binney | John Escreet | Matt Brewer | Nasheet Waits

In such a short space of time, the Doncaster-born pianist and composer John Escreet has made quite an impact on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

John Escreet: Seismic Shift

Damion Reid | Eric Revis | John Escreet

The pianist-composer John Escreet found himself in a room with just a piano for company during lockdown. Without any worldly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2022

Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver: Octagon

Bobby Kapp | Brandon Lopez | Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | William Parker

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Julie London: Five Classic Albums

Al Hendrickson | Al Viola | Benny Carter | Bud Shank | Buddy Cole | Buddy Collette | Dick Nash | Eleanor Slatkin | Felix Slatkin | George Auld

Featuring original artwork and liner notes, this latest release in the Avid Jazz Five Classic Albums series presents a second...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2023

Curtis Amy: Four Classic Albums

One of the best things about Avid’s Four Classic Albums series is the chance to re-evaluate artists who might have...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Ramsey Lewis: Funky Serenity/Salongo

Bryon Gregory | Cleveland Eaton | Derf Reklaw | Ed Green | Jimmy Bryant | Morris Jennings | Ramsey Lewis | Rion Harris | Steve Cobb | Tang

Lewis’ early and mid-1970s work regularly cops the charge of style over substance, but some, especially those weaned on hip...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner

Alex Norris | Bill O’Connell | Camilo Molina | Conrad Herwig | Craig Handy | Eddie Palmieri | Robby Ameen | Ruben Rodriguez

This album follows Herwig’s Latin Side of John Coltrane, bringing a septet approach to some of McCoy Tyner’s works and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2024

Eddie Harris: The In Sound

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Eddie Harris | Ray Codrington | Ron Carter

For many years now, the UK-based Pure Pleasure label has been serving the vinyl lovers’ community with its (usually) 100...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2020