Lafayette Harris: Swingin’ Up In Harlem

Lafayette Harris | Lewis Nash | Peter Washington

Born in Baltimore in 1963, Harris studied with Kenny Barron and made it to New York in the mid-1980s. He...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

A fab foursome: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?

Art Blakey | Arthur Taylor | Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Cedar Walton | Connie Kay | Curtis Fuller | Freddie Hubbard | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane

Craft Recordings’ peerless Original Jazz Classics reissue campaign continues apace with these four exceptional all-analogue vinyl re-releases. Three were cut...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2024

Billy Childs: The Winds of Change

Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley

The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023

Noah Haidu: Slipstream

Chris Haney | Jeremy Pelt | John Davis | Jon Irabagon | Noah Haidu | Willie Jones III

Virginia-born pianist/composer Noah Haidu has been on the New York scene for some years now. How his talent has remained...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011

Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Orchestra: Jazz Is Universal

One of the seminal albums by this fine orchestra makes a welcome reappearance on its original label, proving that what...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

Chris Ingham Quartet: Stan

Arnie Somogyi | Chris Ingham | George Double | Mark Crooks

Pianist Ingham has form with this kind of thing. He’s already been out and about with tributes to Hoagy Carmichael...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2019

Tim Hegarty: Tribute

Carlos Ward | Charlie Haden | Paul Metzke | Paul Motian | Sam Brown

Hegarty has been on the New York scene for some 25 years now, with regular gigs in Gil Evans bands...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2019

Eliane Elias: Mirror Mirror

Chick Corea | Chucho Valdés | Eliane Elias

Asked to name some of the great jazz piano duo albums and you might think of An Evening with Herbie...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2021

Tubby Hayes: No Blues: The Complete Hopbine ‘65

Dick Brennan | Kenny Powell | Ron Matthewson | Tommy Whittle | Tubby Hayes

Now if HG Wells’ 19th century time traveller had set his controls to the year 1965 instead of aeons further...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: September/2023

John Escreet: Exception to the Rule

David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | John Escreet | Nasheet Waits

In the sleeve notes the Doncasterborn, New York-resident pianist John Escreet describes how his most recent mentor and now closest...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012