Kendrick Scott: Corridors
Kendrick Scott | Reuben Rogers | Walter Smith III
The Texan drummer Kendrick Scott's major vehicle as leader-composer has been his Oracle band that he formed in 2006. Corridors,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2023
Hazel Scott: Great Scott! Collected Recordings 1939-57
Hazel Scott was a pioneering jazz pianist and singer, about whom we hear far too little. She is perhaps best-known...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2023
Christian Kobi: Atta!
Christian Kobi | Taku Sugimoto | Wakana Ikeda | Yoko Ikeda
Swiss saxophonist Christian Kobi is a supremely focused improviser and no surprise, perhaps, to find him associating with a group...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2018
Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime
Christian McBride | Josh Evans | Marcus Strickland | Nasheet Waits
Throughout his illustrious 30- year career bassist-bandleader Christian McBride has largely kept his acoustic and electric projects separate but, if...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023
Christian Sands: Be Water
Marcus Miller has an eponymously titled track dedicated to him; and Lalo Schifrin wrote a memorable soundtrack in the 1970s...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020
Charenee Wade: Offering: The Music Of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
Not for nothing did Christian McBride recently describe singer Wade as “the second coming of Betty Carter”. Hearing the master...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015
Christian Wallumrød: Pianokammer
But is it jazz? That's a question that many ‘jazz’ releases might draw nowadays from the more trad-minded listener and,...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2015
Shirley Scott: One For Me
Billy Higgins | Harold Vick | Shirley Scott
Originally an obscure issue on the artist-owned Strata-East records, this album was planned and produced by Shirley Scott herself with...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020
Aja Monet
Aja Monet is a chronicler, a Brooklyn griot, a freedom fighter with fire in her veins and a way with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2023
The Christian McBride Big Band: For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
For almost a decade, Christian McBride's big band has been admired for its power, exuberance and swing – pretty much...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020
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