Steve Kuhn Trio: At This Time…

Joey Baron | Steve Kuhn | Steve Swallow

Steve Kuhn was once a pupil of Madame Margaret Chaloff, a legend in Boston in the 1950s, 60s and early...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2016

Joanne Grauer: Introducing Lorraine Feather

Colin Bailey | David Troncoso | Doug Lenier | Ernie Watts | Joanne Grauer | Lorraine Feather | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa

Grauer was a Los Angeles-based pianist whose jazz credentials and small discography were somewhat eclipsed by her six years as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Art Pepper: The Art of Pepper

One of the great Pepper albums featuring the altoist with pianist Carl Perkins, and originally released on reel-to-reel – this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Adam Kolker: Reflections

Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis

The imaginative ex-Ray Barretto lyrical multi-reedsman is an established figure in New York's contemporary jazz scene....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Gerry Mulligan: Concert Jazz Band in Concert

Alan Raph | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Donovan | Buddy Clark | Conte Candoli | Don Ferrara | Gene Allen | Gene Quill | Gerry Mulligan | Jim Reider

A matter of months after Gerry Mulligan founded his Concert Jazz Band in early 1960, it set off on its...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023

Grant Green: Grantstand

Al Harewood | Baby Face Willette | Ben Dixon | Garvin Masseaux | Grant Green | Jack McDuff | Johnny Acea | Patato Valdes | Wendell Marshall | Willie Bobo

Jazz Images again puts out another gimcrack reissue sold around a new cover photo. Yawn. Presenting four of Green’s earliest...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2020

Michael Dease: Father Figure

Behn Gilece | Endea Owens | Glenn Zaleski | Immanuel Wilkins | Luther Allison | Markus Howell | Michael Dease

While heaping praise on Conrad Herwig for his latest CD for Criss Cross, this writer mentions ‘deep-south’-born Michael Dease as,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2016

Shawnn Monteiro: You Are There

Dave Zinno | Joe Farnsworth | John Allmark | Josh Bruneau | Kenny Barron | Mike Renzi | Nat Reeves | Shawnn Monteiro | Steve Davis | Steve Langone

Monteiro is the daughter of the late bassist Jimmy Woode, and dedicates this album to him. Father and daughter did...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Plymouth

Chris Lightcap | Gerald Cleaver | Jamie Saft | Joe Morris | Mary Halvorson

Any project that features Mary Halvorson is well worth a listen, but Joe Morris is, in truth, the central figure...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014

Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Philip Gibbs: The Clouds Turned Silver

Paul Dunmall | Paul Rogers | Philip Gibbs

Dunmall and Rogers are members of Mujician, alongside Keith Tippett and Tony Levin; the pair, along with Gibbs, have also...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2014