Dave Meder: Unamuno Songs & Stories

The 31-year-old pianist-composer Meder draws on a broad range of influences from classical, ragtime, modernism from Monk to Shearing through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Dave Pell: Four Classic Albums

The tenorist has already got one such collection on Avid and this adds to the set with two sessions from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Dave Stryker: Eight Track III

This guitarist's working B-3 trio joins forces with vibraphonist Stefon Harris for a greasy zero-angst MOR workout on some 1970s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Jeff Williams: The Listener

Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John Hébert | John O'Gallagher

Jeff Williams’ sensitive cymbals and light-touch pulse reflect four decades of drumming with the high and mighty and a CV...

Reviewed by Mike Hobert in issue: July/2013

Kenny Barron: At The Piano

Kenny Barron

Sad to say, I never previously caught up with this debut solo album, even in a previous CD edition. Compared...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Dave Brubeck: At Wilshire-Ebell

The original Fantasy album of Brubeck playing to enthusiastic college crowds was reissued a year or two back on Fresh...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Dave Brubeck: Brandenburg Gate Revisited

Not in the same league as Bossa Nova USA, this features the quartet plus an orchestra playing arrangements by Howard...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Rome & Copenhagen 1969

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

1969 and Miles Davis was dancing to a different drum. Having completed recordings that ultimately became In A Silent Way,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2010

Amina Figarova Sextet: Twelve

A journeying Azerbaijani pianist who recently moved from Holland to New York and here alongside her excellent flautist partner Bart...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Opus 5: Pentasonic

Alex Sipiagin | Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski | Donald Edwards | Seamus Blake

The co-operative quintet's second album seethes and surges through tricky harmonies, zips from hard-boiled swing to soulful beats, and gives...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2013