Album Interview: Corea, Clarke & White: Forever

Bill Connors | Chaka Khan | Chick Corea | Jean-Luc Ponty | Lenny White | Stanley Clarke

The real treat for Return To Forever fans comes in the first half of the first CD with the rhythmic...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2011

Sonny Rollins: And The Big Brass, Trio and Quintet

Alan Dawson | Billy Byers | Billy Higgins | Bob Cranshaw | Clark Terry | Dick Katz | Don Butterfield | Ernie Royal | Ernie Wilkins | Frank Rehak

While there are perhaps no absolute classics, here is an interesting overview of one of Rollins's best and most prolific...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012

Gilberto Gil: Original Album Series

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Elliott Zigmund | Joe LaBarbera | Larry Schneider | Marc Johnson | Toots Thielemans

Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian – nay, a world – icon for a reason, and if ever one needed the...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2016

Jenny Green: Always & Forever

Adrian York | Chris Traves | Claire Martin | Jenny Green | Neville Malcolm | Rob Barron | Winston Clifford

This second album from vocalist Jenny Green scores highly for its imaginative song list, excellent core band that features pianists...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2021

Jim Howard: Forever Between

Ant Romero | Attab Haddad | Jim Howard | Richard Bolton | Thad Kelly

After a jazz education at the Guildhall School of Music in 1990, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Howard returned to his...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021

Maxine Sullivan: The Maxine Sullivan Collection 1937-49

As a broad introduction to this fine singer, this is an excellent 3CD starter, including her work with Claude Thornhill,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Greg Abate Quartet: Motif

A saxophonist who played lead alto for Ray Charles in the early 1970s, Abate keeps the fames of the bebop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Laginha Argülles Norbakken: Setembro

Andreas Norbakken | Julian Arg໥lles | Mário Laginha

Since starting out as a founding member of the inspirational, recently resurrected 1980s Brit collective Loose Tubes, Julian Argüelles has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

The Sachal Ensemble: Song of Lahore

The Sachal Ensemble

This is an album that comes not only with great music but also a great story attached. In Lahore a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016

Sun Ra: The Nubians Of Plutonia/Bad And Beautiful

Reissued one more time, these early Saturn sides from Sun Ra have been crammed together with no real thought about...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013