Elvin Jones: Illumination/Dear John C.

Charles Davis | Charlie Mariano | Elvin Jones | Hank Jones | Jimmy Garrison | McCoy Tyner | Prince Lasha | Richard Davis | Roland Hanna | Sonny Simmons

It is interesting to reflect that in the generation before Elvin Jones’, musicians who achieved great things as members of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Claire Martin: Time and Place

Ben Reynolds | Claire Martin | Gareth Williams | Jeremy Brown | Joe Stilgoe | Laurence Cottle | the Montpellier Cello Quartet

While we've heard Claire Martin with string quartet before (her 2002 album Too Darn Hot!), the incredibly rich, homogeneous timbral...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2014

Nat King Cole: The Complete Billy May Sessions

Second only to Cole's piano trio recordings, his 45 tracks with Billy May's big band are the finest and most...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

George Wallington: Complete 1956-57 Quintet Sessions

Four LPs on two CDs, mainly featuring Wallington's brilliant quintet with Donald Byrd and Phil Woods, this is a must-buy...

Reviewed by Ayn Shipton in issue: June/2016

Yuri Storione, Jorge Rossy & Dominik Schürmann: This Time The Dream's On Us

Yuri Storione

The Basel-based Storione is a hugely talented pianist with a formidable technique and a style that is rooted in the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2021

Jasper Høiby's Planet B: What it Means to be Human

Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Marc Michel

Even before the much-loved London-based piano trio Phronesis called it a day in 2020, the band's effervescent now London-based bassist-leader...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Veryan Weston, Ingrid Laubrock, Hannah Marshall: Haste

Hannah Marshall | Ingrid Laubrock | Veryan Weston

The sleeve notes of Haste relate this music to ritual and even shamanistic activity. And there is a truth in...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: August/2012

The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2

Harold Mabern | Hugh Lawson | Jimmy Hopps | John Lewis | Mtume | Nat Jones | Ron Burton | Sonelius Smith | Stanley Cowell | Webster Lewis

Of all the albums that the groundbreaking independent label Strata East released in the 1970s, this was arguably the most...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Fred Frith & Barry Guy: Backscatter Bright Blue

Barry Guy | Fred Frith

Fred Frith has dedicated a good part of his energies over the last few decades to extending the possibilities of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2015

Jazzrausch Bigband: Dancing Wittgenstein

Techno-jazz is surely an oxymoron, but that sums up this young German 40-piece big band’s monotonous integration of 1990s electronica,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020