Wynton Kelly: Four Classic Albums

Covering exactly 10 years of Kelly's foreshortened career, this mainly trio reissue underlines the compulsive buoyancy of his playing. Eight...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Oscar Peterson Quartet: A Time For Love – Live In Helsinki, 1987

Dave Young | Joe Pass | Martin Drew | Oscar Peterson

It probably helps to think of Peterson as the Buddy Rich of the keyboard – with absolute technical mastery of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Shiver: #4 – I Need You To Focus

Andy Champion | Chris Sharkey | Joost Hendrickx

Chris Sharkey is one of the UK's most agile musical shapeshifters. Hewing heavy riffs for the likes of the much-missed...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: November/2020

Duke Ellington: Complete Newport 1956 Concert

Al Lucas | Ambrose Jackson | Anderson | Benny Bailey | Britt Woodman | Carney | Cat Anderson | Chuck Connors | Clark Terry | Cootie Williams

Newport was the famous happening, before happenings were even thought of, and certainly long before people started writing books about...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2016

Brötzmann/Schlippenbach/Bennink: Fifty Years After… Live At The Lila Eule Bremen 26.05.2018

Alex Von Schlippenbach | Han Bennink | Peter Brötzmann

This pugnacious live encounter was performed as part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Peter Brötzmann's game-changing classic...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Andy Bey: Andy & The Bey Sisters

Andy Bey | Barney Wilen | Geraldine | Kenny Clarke | Kenny Dorham | Paul Rovere | Rayu Ellis | Salome Bey

Although it is worth noting that the family vocal trio made more of an impact in Europe than in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Monnette Sudler: In My Own Way

Kenny Kellen | Mohamed Al-Jabry | Monnette Sudler | Newman T Baker | Oliver Collins

Before Hedwig Mollestadt, Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn; before even Emily Remler, there was Philly-born Monnette Sudler, ploughing a rather...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022

Diego Urcola Quartet ft. Paquito D’Rivera: El Duelo

Diego Urcola

The cover artwork sees Urcola and D'Rivera back-to-back, trumpet and clarinet raised a la pistols at dawn. The gauntlet, we're...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020

Gato Barbieri: Fenix

Anthony Jackson | Chuck Loeb | David Charles | Dennis Chambers | Frank McComb | Gato Barbieri | Gene Golden | Jeff Golub | Joe Beck | Lenny White

Fenix remains an outstanding recording of its decade and even now has a towering presence. It took Barbieri a decade...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014

Kenny Burrell: Tenderly

This tasteful album is the first solo-guitar outing in Kenny Burrell's long archive, a surprising fact since for many years...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020