Courtney Pine: House of Legends

Amanda Drummond | Annise Hadid | Cameron Pierre | Claude Deppa | Courtney Pine | Dominic Grant | Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton | Ellen Blair | Jenny Adejayan | Lucky Ranku

Unquestionably one of the most joyous albums Pine has ever made, this is music to be listened to on several...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Barb Jungr: Shelter From The Storm

Barb Jungr | Laurence Hobgood | Michael Olatuja | Wilson Torres

Vocalist Barb Jungr pulls off quite a coup on her ninth album for Linn, securing the services of Kurt Elling’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2016

Myra Melford: Life Carries Me This Way

Written in tribute to the late Californian fine artist Don Reich, the Chicagoan New York-based versatile left field pianist plays...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Cannonball Adderley: Them Dirty Blues

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Barry Harris | Bobby Timmons | Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | Louis Hayes | Nat Adderley | Paul Chambers | Percy Heath | Sam Jones

Being squeezed between Miles Davis and John Coltrane in the former's sextet for close on two years (1957-59) refined Cannonball's...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2018

George Wallington: Four Classic Albums

Good to have these LPs from pianist Wallington's golden period in the mid-1950s reissued together, and apart from the slightly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

The V.I.P. Trio: Standards Vol. 2

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

A quick follow-up by Fresh Sound to the Vol.1 which I reviewed in Jazzwise 217, this has the same back-story...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017

Various Artists: Here It Is: A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Bill Frisell | Greg Leisz | Gregory Porter | Iggy Pop | Immanuel Wilkins | James Taylor | Kevin Hays | Larry Goldings | Lusiana Souza | Mavis Staples David Gray

Artists have been covering the songs of Leonard Cohen since at least 1969, when Roberta Flack included ‘Hey, That's No...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Jimmy Lytell: 1926-28

Clarinettist Lyrell was in the Original Memphis Five, and here takes the solo spot in a collection of trios and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Various Artists: West Meets East: Indian Music and its Influence on the West

Though it was George Harrison who first introduced Indian music to mainstream Western pop audiences through his sitar embellishment on...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: October/2020

Nick Travis: Featuring Al Cohn

Another of Fresh Sound's excellent revaluations, in which the first call NY trumpeter Nick Travis takes the spotlight in his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017