José James: Lean On Me
James's recent foray into FM-friendly contemporary R&B has yielded mixed results and at times the more explicitly commercial slant of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018
Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio: Bridges
Lien's trio have been tottering on the brink of making an album that actually builds on, rather than equals, Hello...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018
Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Iberico
Jazz and Spanish rhythms have connections that date back to (and probably way beyond) Jelly Roll Morton and New Orleans...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011
Youn Sun Nah: She Moves On
Brad Jones | Dan Rieser | Jamie Saft | Marc Ribot | Youn Sun Nah
This latest studio album from the South Korean vocalist Youn Sun Nah is marked by a new band – it...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017
Kyle Eastwood: Timepieces
Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Ernesto Simpson | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins
If there is an assumption that having a big celebrity dad gives him an advantage on others regardless of merit,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015
Neil Cowley Trio: The Face of Mount Molehill
Evan Jenkins | Leo Abrahams | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan
For pianist-composer Neil Cowley, improvisation has always been a bit of fun in a live situation but an artistic no-go...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012
Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions
Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner
Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021
Ran Blake: Ghost Tones
An absorbing project that pays tribute to Blake's inspiration and colleague, George Russell, done the year after the latter's death....
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2015
Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble: A Trumpet in the Morning
Marty Ehrlich's arrangements for his disciplined, brass-heavy 15-piece ensembles remind me of the genre-crossing blends that the experimental big bands...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2014
Cyrus Chestnut: Midnight Melodies
Curtis Lundy | Cyrus Chestnut | Victor Lewis
The ever-expanding Smoke Jazz Club series, all recorded live on the club's Broadway premises, provides a valuable window on the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
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