Scott Willcox Big Band: Go For It!

Some quietly accomplished outer-London jazz circuit players such as Chris Biscoe, Pete Hurt and Tony Woods take the solos on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik: Zurich Concert

Christian Lillinger | Kaja Draksler | Petter Eldh

You’ll find most piano-bass-drums instrumental line-ups filed under ‘piano trio jazz’ but there’s a collective ethos at work in the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2022

Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue

Christian McBride | Gerald Clayton | Terri Lyne Carrington

When the brilliant musical mind of Terri Lyne Carrington meets the incomparable compositions of Duke Ellington, something special is bound...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2013

George Freeman: The Good Life

Carl Allen | Christian McBride | George Freeman | Joey DeFrancesco | Lewis Nash

The youngest and last survivor of the famed Chicago-based Freeman brothers, guitarist George worked with the family at first and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without a Trace

A 10-year-old NYC big band in the post-Thad Jones lineage with a progressive harmonic approach (there's a 12-tone row piece,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Mike LeDonne: Partners In Time

Christian McBride | Lewis Nash | Mike LeDonne

Despite having the least name recognition of this trio of performers, LeDonne is a veteran of the so-called modern mainstream,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019

Out Of/Into: Motion 1

Gerald Clayton | Immanuel Wilkins | Joel Ross | Kendrick Scott | Matt Brewer

A modern-day equivalent of previous Blue Note all-stars projects, notably 2017’s Our Point Of View (Glasper, Akinmusire, Loueke, Scott, Hodge,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2025

Renee Rosnes: Kinds of Love

Carl Allen | Chris Potter | Christian McBride | Renee Rosnes | Rogério Boccato

The pianist-composer Renee Rosnes doesn’t get talked about very much in the jazz media but her spiritual alliances with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

Christian Lillinger: Open Form for Society Live

Mostly recorded Live at JazzFest Berlin in 2019, the German drummer Lillinger's international 10-piece (including British cellist Lucy Railton and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Ornette Coleman: Ornette!

Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Ornette Coleman | Scott Lafaro | Scott LaFaro

From Coleman's hallowed early-1960s Atlantic period comes one of a slew of classic albums that really makes a case for...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014