Laura Zakian: Songs For Modern Lovers
Laura Zakian | Nic France | Simon Simon | Steve Lodder
Album number four from singer Laura Zakian is part homage to Frank Sinatra's classic 1956 album Songs for Swinging Lovers,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014
Fred Hersch: {Open Book}
The fiercely independent 61-year-old pianist Fred Hersch has been a quietly influential figure on the next generation of open-minded pianists,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017
Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live From San Pedro
Christopher Luty | Jeff Hamilton | Tamir Hendelman
Hamilton's trio took time out from their regular gig as the rhythm section of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, based in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018
Dopolarians: Garden Party
Alvin Fielder | Chad Fowler | Chris Parker | Kelley Hurt | Kidd Jordan | William Parker
This happy-go-lucky, unpretentious session was recorded in New Orleans and the blues sits at the core of an album that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: February/2020
Anthony Joseph: People Of The Sun
Formidable multi-tasker Anthony Joseph – British-Trinidadian bandleader, poet, academic, novelist, more – went back to the source to realise this...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Feb/2019
Erroll Garner: Plays Gershwin and Kern
Charles ‘Ike’ Isaacs | Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Jimmie Smith | José Mangual | Kelly Martin
This final album in the 12-record series of Garner's Octave records from the 1960s and 70s begins with a version...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020
Lloyd McNeill: Tori
How many great records have slipped through the cracks because they first surfaced in small numbers on private, artist-run labels?...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2017
Ochion Jewell: VOLK
Amino Belyamani | Lionel Loueke | Ochion Jewell | Quasim Naqvi | Sam Minaie
While Michael Brown and Ferguson continue to grab the headlines, the case of Ochion Jewell should not go unnoticed. A...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2015
Joey DeFrancesco + The People: Project Freedom
Dan Wilson | Jason Brown | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Troy Roberts
We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2017
Dr John: Big Band Voodoo
Dr John Mac Rebennack | WDR Big Band
Everyone should have a little Dr John in their lives, and this recording with a full-blooded big band, not a...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2020
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