Tommy Flanagan: Four Classic Albums

Sadly underrated during his lifetime but not by musicians, Tommy Flanagan was a Detroit pianist who combined slick technique with...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020

Katalyst: Jazz Is Dead Series 2: Katalyst JID013

Ahmad Dubose | Brandon Cordoba | Brian Hargrove | Corbin Jones | David Otis | Emile Martinez | Greg Paul | Jonah Levine | Marlon Spears

Los Angeles-based group Katalyst Collective has been around since 2014, with backing dates for Gary Bartz and Roy Ayers on...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: September/2022

Bill Evans/Jim Hall: Undercurrent: The Stereo & Mono Versions

Bill Evans | Freddie Hubbard | Jim Hall | Percy Heath | Philly Joe Jones | Ron Carter | Zoot Sims

The original six-track duo album, Undercurrent, ranked high among the output of both partners. Its pervading pensive ballad mood was...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2019

Samuel Eagles' SPIRIT: Ask, Seek, Knock

Dave Hamblett | Duncan Eagles | Jean Toussaint | Max Luthert | Ralph Wyld | Sam Leak | Samuel Eagles

Young British altoist Samuel Eagles is a strong player with a rich sound and a fondness for bubbling, double-time runs....

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: July/2017

Fini Bearman: Burn The Boat

Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Fini Bearman | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | Robin Mallarkey

Having impressed with her 2011 debut Step Up and her 2014 reworkings of classic Gershwin material on Porgy & Bess,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2016

Snowpoet

Chris Hyson | Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Lauren Kinsella | Matthew Robinson | Nicholas Costley-White

Soft-focus songs with poetic pretentions, as suggested in the group’s name and the inclusion of W. B. Yeats and Sylvia...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: March/2016

Sarah Ellen Hughes: The Story So Far

Chris Allard | Darren Altman | Dave O'Higgins | Rick Smpson | Sarah Ellen Hughes | Tom Farmer

Since releasing her debut, Darning The Dream, Sarah Ellen Hughes has gone on to win the 2010 International Jazz Singing...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

George Adams: Sound Suggestions

Dave Holland | George Adams | Heinz Sauer | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Wheeler | Richard Beirach

Not only is this vintage George Adams, from a time when his playing was at its most fluent and inventive,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2019

Brandon Seabrook: Die Trommel Fatale

Brandon Seabrook | Chuck Bettis | Dave Treut | Eivind Opsvik | Marika Hughes | Sam Ospovat

Brandon the banjo-brigand becomes Brandon the axe-wielding big-band incubus on this ensemble recording, a fussy web of clandestine passageways and...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2017

Arun Ghosh: Seclused In Light

Aref Durvesh | Arun Ghosh | Chris Williams | Dave Walsh | Idris Rahman | Myke Wilson

Over the last 15 years or so clarinetist-composer Arun Ghosh has created a body of recorded work that has broached...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2022