Charlie Jones: Love Form

An ambient Keiran Hebden-ish folky electronica debut recording from Robert Plant’s old Bristol-based bassist joined by members of Portishead and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Dave Stryker: Eight Track

In 1975 this NYC-based guitarist was listening to plenty of pop (as well as jazz) on his eight-track tape player...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Dave Stryker: As We Are

Benni von Gutzeit | Benni Von Gutzeit | Brian Blade | Dave Stryker | John Patitucci | Julian Shore | Marika Hughes | Monica K Davis | Sara Caswell

Following his well received Baker’s Dozen, the mellifluous guitar man strikes out (someone had to say it) in a new...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2022

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Their Last Time Out

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The album title says it all. At the end of 1966, Brubeck had advised the quartet that he would be...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2012

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Scandal

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Linda May Han Oh

There's something of Coleman Hawkins about Lovano: like the Hawk, he can swing and sing and mainline the blues in...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2018

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

Dan Messore/Iain Ballamy/Tim Harries/Gethin Jones: Indigo Kid

Dan Messore | Gethin Jones | Iain Ballamy | Tim Harries

Dan Messore is a guitarist with, it seems, very little inclination to shred. Across these original instrumentals (arranged by band-mate...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Dave O'Higgins: Standards

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

Sometimes you just need a hit to the soul: and O'Higgins delivers in spades with a collection that is just...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017

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

Dave Gisler Trio: See You Out There

Dave Gisler | David Murray | Jaimie Branch | Lionel Friedli | Raffaele Bossard

Three releases, all featuring trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch, and all given extra – and unwelcome – piquancy by her sudden death...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022