Steve Khan: Parting Shot

Andres Beeuwsaert | Anthony Jackson | Bobby Allende | Dennis Chambers | Manolo Badrena | Marc Quinones | Rob Mounsey | Steve Khan | Tatiana Parra

It's taken the best part of 40 years but Khan has finally got around to recording a full-on Latin influenced...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2011

Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise

Aage Kvalbein | Bjørn Kjellemyr | Egil Fossum | Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen | Kari Bremmnes | Ketil Bjørnstad | Matias Bjørnstadt

Patience is a virtue for this Japanese veteran meditative jazz pianist's trio that's notable for being his last with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Don Rendell Quintet: Space Walk

Don Rendell | Jack Thorncraft | Peter Shade | Stan Robinson | Trevor Tompkins

Space Walk, from the EMI Lansdowne Jazz series, is the first of the much-anticipated British Jazz Explosion series of facsimile...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Jim Snidero: Far Far Away

Jim Snidero | Joe Farnsworth | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Orrin Evans | Peter Washington

The career of Jim Snidero, the 64-year-old Washington-raised saxophonist and educator, has embraced organ funk with Jack McDuff in the...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2023

Nick Levinovsky: Special Opinion

Bill Evans | Dave Weckl | Igor Butman | Mike Stern | Mitch Stein | Nick Levinovsky | Randy Brecker | the Moscow Jazz Orchestra | Tom Kennedy

Here's a project with no side to it. Just straight-ahead, brass rich jazz-rock. The likes of Bill Evans and Mike...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

George Lewis & Splitter Orchester: Creative Construction Set TM

Anat Cohavi | Andrea Neumann | Anthea Caddy | Axel Dörner | Biliana Voutchkova | Boris Baltschun | Burkhard Beins | Chris Heenan | Clayton Thomas | George Lewis

With the end of ‘Creative Construction SetTM #3’ – actually track one – looming into view, a lusty chorale bellows...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Ewan Bleach Quartet: Ewan the Night ‘n’ the Music

Colin Good | Ewan Bleach | Jim Ydstie | John Kelly | Martin Wheatley

Multi-reedman Bleach is a regular with the new young Metropolitan revivalist bands like Tuba Skinny and has recorded quite widely.Here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2022

David Benoit featuring Jane Monheit: 2 in Love

Mainstream easy listening fodder from the Grammy-nominated pianist Benoit who's joined by the Grammy-nominated vocalist Jane Monheit on MOR pop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Tina May with the Andy Lutter Trio: Café Paranoia

Andy Lutter | Sunk Pöschl | Thomas Hauser | Tina May

Café Paranoia celebrates and documents the long-standing musical friendship between the Munich-based pianist and composer Andy Lutter and the late,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2017

Adam Rudolph & Go: Organic Orchestra: Focus And Field

Adam Rudolph | Ivan Barenboim | Kaoru Watanabe | Michele Gentile | Ned Rothenberg | Sara Schoenbeck | Stephanie Griffin | Sumie Kaneko

Through sideman duties with legends such as Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry; as well as work as a bandleader in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021