Bjørn Solli: Aglow: The Lyngør Project Volume 1

Aaron Parks | Bill Stewart | Bjørn Vidar Solli | Ingrid Jensen | Matt Clohesy | Seamus Blake

The thirty-something Norwegian guitarist Bjørn Solli wrote the tracks for this recording while temporarily residing in Lyngør, a small village...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

George Khan: Ah!

Albert Kovitz | Charlie Hart | Frank Flowers | George Khan | Peter Lemer | Terry Day

Ah, look at the sweet puddy cat snuggling against Khan’s shiny pate on the cover. But don’t be fooled: Khan’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

Joey Calderazzo: Going Home

It is perhaps easy to overlook the career of Joey Calderazzo since he became an indispensable cog in the Branford...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Miles Okazaki: Thisness

Anthony Tidd | Matt Mitchell | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman

A longstanding sideman to Steve Coleman, guitarist-composer Miles Okazaki has been steadily building an impressive discography as an artist in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2022

Nicolas Masson, Roberto Pianca, Emanuele Maniscalco: Third Reel

Emanuele Maniscalco | Nicolas Masson | Roberto Pianca

This new Swiss-Italian trio are signed to ECM and, appropriately enough, they make a very ECM-ish sound. Is that, one...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2013

Max Roach: Four Classic Albums

The legendary drummer-composer and social activist went through a period of immense creativity in the late 1950s, the culmination of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

The Ed Palermo Big Band: The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren

Barbara Cifelli | Ben Kono | Bill Straub | Bob Quaranta | Bruce McDaniel | Charley Gordon | Cliff Lyons | Ed Palermo | John Bailey | Katie Jacoby

“The thing about this record is, I wanted it to be jazzier,” says Ed Palermo of his new disc, A...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Jan Hammer: Oh, Yeah?

David Al Johnson | Fernando Saunders | Jan Hammer | Stephen Kindler | Tony Smith

Hammer in a period of transition, post-Mahavishnu, pre-Jeff Beck and the 1980s pay dirt of Miami Vice. So, no surprise...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2018

Various: An Easy Introduction to Bossa Nova: Top 20 Albums

Antonio Carlos Jobim | Coleman Hawkins | João Gilberto | Laurindo Almeida | Stan Getz | Vinicius de Moraes

A sumptuous collection of 20 albums celebrating the late 1950s bossa nova craze in Brazil, a third world country that...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2020

Digby Fairweather & Stan Barker: The Definitive Duets Vol. 1

Digby Fairweather | Stan Barker

Fairweather rates his playing on these duet tracks as among the very best he has put on record. Originally issued...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2016