McAlmont & Webb: The Last Bohemians

Alex Webb | Andrew Cleyndert | Andy Davies | David McAlmont | Peter Adam Hill | Toni Kofi

This isn’t the first collaboration between vocalist David McAlmont and pianist Alex Webb, as the two continue to perform the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2020

Isfar Sarabski: Planet

Alan Hampton | Baku Strings Quartet | Isfar Sarabski | Lev Trofimov | Makar Novikov | Mark Guiliana | Sasha Mashin

With a mother who teaches violin; a father who is a record collector and aficionado; and a grandfather who sings...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2022

Laura Jurd: Human Spirit

Alex Roth | Chris Batchelor | Colm O'Hara | Conor Chaplin | Corrie Dick | Laura Jurd | Lauren Kinsella | Mick Foster

This follow-up to Laura Jurd's critically acclaimed 2012 debut Landing Ground explores an entirely different sound-world. The all-instrumental debut brought...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2015

Charlie Wood: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Charlie Wood's seventh album Lush Life is his second release on the Memphis-based independent label, Archer Records, following his 2009...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Alexis Parsons

This Chicago-born vocalist’s affective classical-toned vocal comes through best on her lovelorn Broadway ballads especially Wilder’s ‘Winter of My Discontent’...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Pablo Held: The Trio Meets John Scofield

John Scofield | Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Pianist Pablo Held is one of the leading lights on the Cologne jazz scene, often featuring at the annual WDR...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2015

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