Tommy Smith and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Modern Jacobite

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Tommy Smith

How many jazz albums being made today will be remembered, discussed, played and replayed in 12 months' time, let alone...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2016

Richard Galliano: Piazzolla Forever 20th Anniversary

Celebrating a 20th with a tenth anniversary live CD seems weird and the extra 2005 live DVD just adds to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Bill Evans: Live At Birdland, New York City

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette | Marty Morell | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick

The absolute classics in this batch are combined on the Jazz Images reissue, not only the advertised Waltz For Debby...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019

Honey Ear Trio: Swivel

Allison Miller | Jeff Lederer | Kirk Knuffke | Rene Hart

Sustaining interest with the bare bones of a sax, bass and drum trio is a big ask, even when the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2016

Ella Fitzgerald: Three Classic Albums Plus

Two LPs backed by Frank De Vol and one by Nelson Riddle would make a good package, but why add...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Flock

Al MacSween | Bex Burch | Danalogue | Sarathy Korwar | Tamar Osborn

The bass clarinet, played with a certain attention to atmosphere, inevitably summons echoes of Bennie Maupin's glowering contribution to Miles...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2023

Ali Akbar Khan: That Which Colors The Mind

Ali Akbar Khan | Indranil Bhattacharya | Zakir Hussain

One of the turning points in the 20th century musical arts occurred when the sarod virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan and...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2021

Anthony Joseph: People Of The Sun

Akie Bermiss | Charles Haynes | Greg Tate | Kyle Miles | Marcus Strickland | Mitch Henry | Pharoah Monch

Formidable multi-tasker Anthony Joseph – British-Trinidadian bandleader, poet, academic, novelist, more – went back to the source to realise this...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Feb/2019

Jim Black/AlasNoAxis: Antiheroes

Chris Speed | Hilmar Jensson | Jim Black | Skúli Sverrisson

Born in Seattle but today resident in Brooklyn, Jim Black is known for bringing Balkan music into jazz, as a...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: August/2013

Erroll Garner: Plays Gershwin and Kern

Charles ‘Ike’ Isaacs | Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Jimmie Smith | José Mangual | Kelly Martin

This final album in the 12-record series of Garner's Octave records from the 1960s and 70s begins with a version...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020