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

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

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

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

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

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