Charlie Wood: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Charlie Wood's seventh album Lush Life is his second release on the Memphis-based independent label, Archer Records, following his 2009...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Sachal Studios Orchestra: Jazz and All That In Memory of Dave Brubeck

Ballu Khan | Derek Watkins | John Parracelli | Nafees Ahmed Khan | Najaf Ali | Rafiq Ahmed

The Sachal Studios Orchestra comprises musicians from Pakistan playing traditional instruments plus three cellos and three desks of violins. It...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Devin Gray/Ellery Eskelin/Dave Ballou/Michael Formanek: Dirgo Rataplan

Dave Ballou | Devin Gray | Ellery Eskelin | Michael Formanek

Although just 28-yearsold, Gray is mature enough to see himself as a “musician-drummer rather than a drummer-drummer”, and in this...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012

Dave Brubeck: Live in Europe

Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Bob McCracken | Cozy Cole | Earl Hines | Jack Teagarden | Louis Armstrong | Marty Napoleon | Sid Catlett | Trummy Young

Originally on Columbia and supplemented here with a 1956 session, this is the 1958 classic Desmond/Wright/Morello quartet on one if...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

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

Steven Nichols: From Dust

Amund Kleppan | Charlie Rees | John Jones | Reuben Goldmark | Steven Nichols

You may not have heard of trumpeter Steven Nichols, but his pedigree speaks for itself: he has studied and performed...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

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

Bob James: Feel Like Making LIVE!

Billy Kilson | Bob James | Michael Palazollo

Back in 2000, James’ reputation covered so many bases that he was the headliner at Jazz FM's 10th birthday party,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022