Gil Evans: Four Classic Albums

Brilliant steps towards Gil's bandleading career, reprised through the albums New Bottle Old Wine, Great Jazz Standards and Out Of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Johnny Griffin/Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach

The early material consists of Griffin’s three Blue Note albums and his first Riverside, presenting the virtuoso tenorman from Chicago...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live at Slugs’ Volume I

Cecil McBee | Charles Tolliver | Jimmy Hopps | Stanley Cowell

Charles Tolliver and his Strata-East co-founder Stanley Cowell, accompanied by the superb McBee-Hopps rhythm section, are both in absolutely imperious...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2021

Barry Altschul: The 3dom Factor

Barry Altschul | Joe Fonda | Jon Irabagon

Altschul's first album as a leader for over a quarter of a century feels very much like a retrospective...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2013

Tyshawn Sorey: Koan

Thomas Morgan | Todd Neufeld | Tyshawn Sorey

Hard to believe that this work of delicate beauty is only percussionist/pianist /trombonist /composer Sorey's second album (after 2007's That/Not)...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2010

Michael Janisch: Worlds Collide

Andrew Bain | Clarence Penn | George Crowley | Jason Palmer | John Escreet | John O'Gallagher | Michael Janisch | Rez Abassi

Janisch enjoys considerable kudos as the founder and head of the dynamic independent record label Whirlwind Recordings, but that should...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2019

Mike Cooper/Mark Wastell: Sound Mirrors

Mark Wastell | Mike Cooper

As Geoff Dyer said of Don Cherry, Mike Cooper ‘has simply become the music’. And in Wastell he has a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2020

TK Blue: Latinbird

Bird rules on this veteran, ex-Dollar Brand and longtime Randy Weston sideman saxophonist/flautist’s ninth CD as leader but with Caribbean...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Albert Nicholas: Albert’s Blues & the 44 Gerrard St. Session

Albert Nicholas | Barry Martyn | Bix Duff | Brian Turnock | Bruce Turner | Cuff Billett | Ernie Price | Gerry Salisbury | Graham Burbidge | Humphrey Lyttelton

Something of a game of two halves, this one. The fine New Orleans clarinet star Albert Nicholas had come to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021

Billy Cobham/George Duke Band: Live On Tour In Europe

Excellent work from the 1976 tour, with John Scofield battling it out with the leaders and the propulsive bass of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014