The Cannonball Adderley Quinet: Accent On Africa

Julian Cannonball Adderley | Nat Adderley

Cannonball Adderley's tenure at Capitol Records in the 1960s saw him working extensively with the label's great composer-arranger-producer David Axelrod....

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2021

Rich Perry: Mood

The Danish Steeplechase label's mark of quality in the acoustic jazz tradition continues with mellow-toned saxophonist Rich Perry quartet's set...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Dave Weckl Band: Transition

Adem Yilmaz | Alexander Inman-Hislop | Elsen Price | Metin Yilmaz | Stuart Vandegraaf | Zela Margossian

Two related reissues from 2000 and 2002 by the Weckl quartet with Steve Weingart, Tom Kennedy and Brandon Fields, both...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

SHL: #2

Leeds guitarist Nik Svarc, drummer-percussionist Steve Hanley and keyboardist Martin Longhawn join the dots between jazz-rock and Hammond funk, discovering...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Miyasaka +5: Animals Garden

Genji Sawai | Hiromichi Tsugaki | Hiroshi Itaya | Koichi Matsukaze | Takashi ‘Bear’ Miyasaka | Uniden

Following its excellent J-Jazz compilations last year, BBE’s curation of classic, largely obscure Japanese improvised music continues apace. As can...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2020

Jeremy Monteiro, Jay Anderson, Lewis Nash: Live at No Black Tie Kuala Lumpur

Jeremy Monteiro

Known as ‘Singapore's King of Swing’, Jeremy Monteiro brought top New Yorkers Anderson and Nash out to his hometown...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021

Pharoah Sanders: Village Of the Pharoahs/Wisdom Through Music

Art Webb | Badal Roy | Calvin Hill | Cecil McBee | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | James Branch | Jimmy Hopps | Joe Bonner | Kenneth Nash | Kylo Kylo

The photo of Sanders in lotus position, generously collared psychedelic shirt poking out from under his white robes, says it...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2012

Lauren Sevian: Bliss

Alexa Tarantino | Christian McBride | E.J. Strickland | Lauren Sevian | Robert Rodriguez

Lauren Sevian's second album as a leader highlights the throughregister control, throaty warmth and impressive fluency that have marked her...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2018

Art Blakey & Duke Jordan: Les Liaisons Dangereuses + Des Femmes Disparaissent

Art Blakey | Art Taylor | Barney Wilen | Benny Golson | Bobby Timmons | Charlie Rouse | Clark Terry | Duke Jordan | Eddie Khan | Johnny Rodriguez

It’s worth pointing out that Duke Jordan’s soundtrack to Les Liaisons Dangereuses now makes up only half of the original...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

The Tommy Evans Orchestra: The Green Seagull

Anna Stott | Dave Kane | Jami Smith | Kari Nergaard-Bleivik | Kris Wright | Matt Roberts | Nick Tyson | Rob Mitchell | Ruby Wood | Russ Henderson

More big sounds and ambition from up north, this time by Leeds-based drummer-composer Tommy Evans' Contemporary Jazz Composition BASCA award-winning...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013