Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin: Brasil

Bruno Migotto | Celso Fonseca | Chico Pinheiro | Dave Grusin | Edu Ribiero | Gregoire Maret | Ivan Lins | Lee Ritenour | Marcelo Costa | Tatiana Parra

Fifty years or so after they started recording together, including plenty of Brazilian-influenced music, Ritenour and Grusin set off last...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024

Agile Experiments: Alive in the Empire

Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | John Edwards

Agile Experiments’ vinyl-only releases emphasise the Dave De Rose’s collective’s ethos since their 2015 start, fiercely improvising to curious Brixton...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Dave Okumu: Knopperz

Guitarist-singer Okumu, a Mercury prize nominated artist from London’s F-ire Collective, follows his own understatedly inventive and spacious, genre-twisting vein...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

In 1958, the Brubeck Quartet undertook an exhausting tour, first in Europe and then, sponsored by the US State Department,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity

Carmen Rothwell | Dave Adewumi | Dave Douglas | Fabian Almazan | Joey Baron | Mathew Stevens

Perhaps it's easier to put aside the Dizzy Gillespie associations.Douglas only addresses a couple of Dizzy tunes, although echoes and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Miles Davis: Miles Davis Miles At The Fillmore. Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol.3

Airto Moreira | Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Steve Grossman

“Bill and I got along all right, but we had our disagreements because Bill is a tough motherfucking businessman, and...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2014

Miles Davis: The Lost Concert

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Chick Corea | Dave Holl | Deron Jackson | Jackie McLean | Joe “Foley” McCreary | Joe Zawinul | John McLaughlin | John Scofield

Davis studiously avoided revisiting his distinguished past until the final year of his life. But on 8 July, 1991, amid...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet: Joyriding

Dave Newton | Derek Nash | Geoff Gascoyne | Martin Shaw | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom | Winston Rollins

Derek Nash is a busy man. He’s a key member of Jools Holland’s hard-touring Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, leader of...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2011

Dave Liebman – Steve Dalachinsky: The Fallout Of Dreams

Dave Liebman | Richie Beirach | Steve Dalachinsky

Growing up in 1960s New York, a teenage Steve Dalachinsky caught the beat bug and took up his pen in...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2014

Kevin Eubanks: East West Time Line

Bill Pierce | Dave Holland | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kevin Eubanks | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Mino Cinelu | Nicholas Payton | Orrin Evans | Rene Camacho

This is very much a game of two halves, or an album of two sides, with the proviso that the...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: May/2017