Mark Dresser Seven: Sedimental You

David Morales Boroff | Jim Black | Joshua White | Mark Dresser | Marty Ehrlich | Michael Dessen | Nicole Mitchell

Bassist-composer-bandleader Dresser has been a highly-respected presence on the New York scene since the 1970s and his recorded output is...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2016

Stacey Kent: I Know I Dream

Graham Harvey | Jeremy Brown | Jim Tomlinson | John Paricelli | Joshua Morrison | Stacey Kent

Any doubts about the hushed intimacy and understatement of Stacey Kent’s voice not being suited to an orchestral setting are...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2018

Theo Croker Quartet with Mitglieder der Berliner Philharmoniker: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles

Danny Grissett | Gregory Hutchinson | Joshua Ginsburg | Magnus Lindgren | the Berlin Philharmoniker | Theo Croker

Sketches of Miles is exactly that. Loving recreations of the sacred cows of the Miles Davis canon – including ‘Pinocchio/Milestones,’...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Sopko/LasweII/Pridgen: Sopko/LasweIl/Pridgen

Bill Laswell | Hamir Atwal | Joshua Smith | Martin Dosh | Michael Lewis | Mike Sopko | Thomas Pridgen

This here’s some heavy, heavy monstrous reptilian fusion, with bass master Laswell carrying the genes over from his Last Exit...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2016

Matt Brewer: Ganymede

Damion Reid | Mark Shim | Matt Brewer

Bassist Matt Brewer's sax and rhythm trio had its genesis in Greg Osby's turn-of-the-century bands. Tenor saxophonist Mark Shim recorded...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2019

Various Artists: Inspiring Elvis: The Music Behind The King of Rock and Roll

Amos Milburn | Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup | Big Joe Turner | Big Mama Thornton | Dinah Washington | Ethel Waters | Fats Waller | Golden Gate Quartet | Hot Lips Page | Josh White

We can’t be sure that Elvis knew and was influenced by all these African American artists and their recordings, but...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2024

Ohad Talmor: Back To The Land

Adam O’Farrill | Chris Tordini | David Virelles | Eric McPherson | Leo Genovese | Ohad Talmor | Russ Johnson | Shane Endsley

The ‘lost tapes’ scenario is a well known, but in this case it is not just another session by a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2023/2024

Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah: Ruler Rebel

Braxton Cook | Chief Shaka Shaka | Christian Scott | Cliff Hines | Corey Fonville | Elena Pinderhughes | Joe Dyson Jr. | Joshua Crumbly | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields

Is this the future sound of black American jazz – an inclusive yet rhythmically complex groove based music that owes...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

Victor Feldman: Four Classic Albums

A boy-wonder on drums who went on to become an excellent pianist, vibraphonist and front-rank composer of classic modern-jazz themes,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020

Indigo Mist: That the Days Go By and Never Come Again

Cuong Vu | Douglas Niemela | Ivan Arteaga | Joshua Parmenter | Luke Berman | Richard Karpen | Shih-Wei Lo | Ted Poor

There's nothing that whets the appetite for digging into a new release quite like discovering that it features a ‘live...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014