Terence Blanchard: The Comedian

Carl Allen | David Pulphus | Kenny Barron | Khari Allen Lee | Ravi Coltrane | Terence Blanchard

One of the key soundtrack composers of the last two decades returns to writing for the silver screen with a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2017

Various Artists: Oscar, With Love

Audrey Morris | Benny Green | Bill Charlap | Chick Corea | Dave Young | Gerald Clayton | Hiromi | Justin Kauflin | Kenny Barron | Lance Anderson

This impressive array of pianistic talent was selected by Oscar Peterson's widow Kelly to create a kind of musical festschrift,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2018

Noah Haidu: Doctone

Noah Haidu

Haidu, a former Kenny Barron student, considers the late Kenny Kirkland – who died in 1998 aged only 43 –...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2020

Bill Charlap Trio: Notes from New York

Bill Charlap | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington

Now that Charlap has won a Grammy for his collaboration with Tony Bennett, we can expect some wider appreciation of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016

Noah Preminger/Broken Shadows/Gregory Tardy/Bill Frisell/Billy Lester/Kenny Werner/Hank Roberts: Newvelle Records: Seaso

Adopting a unique marketing strategy, first put into effect in 2015, Newvelle Records, co-founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Dave Holland Quintet: Seeds of Time

Dave Holland | Julian Priester | Kenny Wheeler | Marvin 'smitty' Smith | Steve Coleman

Between 1983 and 1987, Dave Holland recorded three albums with his quintet – Jumpin’ In, Seeds of Time and The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019

Michael Brecker

Charlie Haden | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Kirkland | Michael Brecker | Pat Metheny

Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021

The Jazz Messengers: The Complete Jazz Messengers At The Café Bohemia

Art Blakey | Doug Watkins | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | Kenny Dorham

Confession time: this was the very first Blue Note album that I ever acquired. And I still have it –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013

Bert Myrick: Live'n Well

Bert Myrick | George Bohannon | John Fields | Kenny Cox | Will Austin

Another fascinating slice of independent American jazz history which makes the point, if at all needed, that there are possibly...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2018

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall: Love Is Here To Stay

Bill Charlap | Diana Krall | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington | Tony Bennett

While Bennett and Krall have recorded together before, on Bennett's albums Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001)...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2018