Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Live At Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (Mdw Ntr)

Anthony Tidd | Jonathan Finlayson | Kokayi | Sean Rickman | Steve Coleman

New York’s Village Vanguard could not have been a more adequate venue for Steve Coleman & Five Elements to celebrate...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

The Quentin Collins/Brandon Allen Quartet: What's It Gonna Be?

Brandon Allen | Enzo Zirilli | Ernesto Simpson | Natalie Williams | Quentin Collins | Ross Stanley | Trevor Mires

Quentin Collins' debut, 2007's If Not Now, Then When?, began the process of establishing the young trumpeter as a leader...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2011

Babelfish: Once Upon A Tide

Barry Green | Brigitte Beraha | Chris Laurence | Paul Clarvis

Babelfish is one of the most rewarding and creatively fecund modern jazz quartets about. Fired by the notion that music...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2019

Johnnie Pate: Complete Recordings 1955-56

Pate's an obscure Chicagoan bassist who vanished into the world of soul in the 1960s, but on the strength of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014

Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: An Oratorio Of Seven Songs

Blue Trumpet Quartet | Carmina Escobar | Hardedge | Karen Parks | Min Xiao-Fen | Phereroan akLaff | Red Koral Quartet | Wadada Leo Smith

Smith's work was recently featured at the London Festival of Music, which had a special focus on African-American classical composers....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2019

Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

Chris Biscoe | Dave Whitford | Jon Scott | Kate Williams | Mike Outram

The only criticism you can have of Chris Biscoe's 50-plus years in jazz is why he's recorded so few projects...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2023

Larry Carlton

Classic late 1970s fusion from guitarist Carlton, of which the toe-tapping ‘Rio Samba’ strays creatively into latin territory to be...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Soothsayers: Human Nature

From their first incarnation as a swinging, heavily South-African inflected jazz ensemble, trumpeter Robin Hopcraft and saxophonist Idris Rahman have...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Tobias Preisig: In Transit

Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Chris Higginbottom | guest Stefano Di Battista | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins

A Zurich-born, Radiohead-inspired, improvising violinist and his quartet perform originals that include a gothic take on Leonard Cohen's ‘Hallelujah’....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

Various Artists: Jazz On Film: Beat, Square & Cool

André Previn | Billy Strayhorn | Charles Mingus | Coleman Hawkins | Duke Ellington | Franz Waxman | Freddie Redd | Gerry Mulligan | Jackie McLean | Johnny Mandel

Going on with the flow from last year's 5-CD box set of jazz-based Film Noir soundtracks, Jazzwise's film music chauffeur...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013