Wallace Roney: Blue Dawn – Blue Nights

Emilio Modeste | Kojo Odu Roney | Lenny White | Oscar Williams | Paul Cuffari | Quintin Zoto | Wallace Roney

The American critic Francis Davis astutely observed in the liner-notes to Wallace Roney's 2010 album, If Only For One Night,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Jesse Palter: Paper Trail

Adult-orientated American mainstream pop-rock with far from obvious jazz references, and though there's some quality to the singer-songwriting, it's unlikely...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Challenger Deep

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tomas Challenger

As a fitting successor to their 2013 session Hullabaloo, Challenger Deep is a new creative stage for Riff Raff –...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2018

Keely Smith: The Keely Smith Collection 1949-62

Smith's death last December ought to have prompted a wave of reissues, but aside from a Louis Prima compendium, it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Stan Getz: Complete Columbia Albums Collection

Albert Dailey | Andy Laverne | Billy Hart | Buster Williams | Chick Corea | Elvin Jones | Jimie Rowles | Jimmy Rowles | João Gilberto | Jurre Haanstra

It’s debatable whether you’d need to buy Getz’s Columbia albums until after you’ve acquired his output for all the other...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2013

The Sorcerers

Described as the Ethiopiques of the modern age, Leeds based band Sorcerers are indeed heavily influenced by Mulatu Astatke and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Gabriel Garrick Septet: Song for My Father

Gabriel Garrick | Joe Pettitt | Jon Stokes | Martin Hathaway | Martin Kolarides | Pat Davey | Peter James

Garrick is the custodian of his late father Mike’s considerable musical legacy but now he’s striking out for himself, his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2013

Roy Haynes: Togyu

Kenny Barron | Richard Davis | Roy Haynes | Teruo Nakamura

There's rare and then there are records like this: a limited vinyl release in Japan in 1975 that's never been...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2013

Monocled Man: Ex-Voto

Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons

The trumpeter-composer-programmer Rory Simmons is an original member of North London’s underground LOOP Collective, an organization that became very fertile...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Dave Liebman | Michel Delville | Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014