Brian Bromberg: Bromberg Plays Hendrix (2020 Remix and Remastered)

Brian Bromberg | Bruce Stone | Tom McCauley | Vinnie Colaiuta

Great fun on its original release a decade ago, Bromberg's re-visioning of Hendrix's music on a battery of basses –...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2020

Paul Dunmall Quintet: The Dreamtime Suite

Dave Kane | Hamid Drake | Paul Dunmall | Percy Pursglove | Steve Tromans

The six sections of Paul Dunmall's The Dreamtime Suite unfold without break from the spritely opening title track to the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2017

Jacques Loussier: Play Bach 1 & 2

These albums made Loussier's reputation as the French pianist who ‘swung’ Bach, and they remain some of his best playing,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Kenny Burrell: Mess Of Blues

Billy Butler | Grady Tate | Grant Green | Johnny Hodges | Kenny Burrell | Les Spann | Milt Hinton | Mundell Lowe | Osie Johnson | Wild Bill Davis

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Mal Waldron: Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert

Mal Waldron

Previously unissued, this is another release by producer Zev Feldman, taken from the vaults of Radio France. Despite his fairly...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2022

Mark De Clive-Lowe: Renegades

Long championed by DJ Gilles Peterson, this is the now Los Angeles-based hip nu-jazz producer’s ninth CD and it treads...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011

Natalie Duncan: Free

Airto Moreira | Alan Rubin | Burt Collins | Chick Corea | Flora Purim | Garnett Brown | Joe Farrell | Joe Wallace | Keith Jarrett | Mel Davis

The first release on this singer's longtime collaborator Goldie's record label finds her sticking to an uninspiring MOR neo-soul pop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Tim Armacost: Time Being

Dave Kikoski | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Robert Hurst | Tim Armacost

The saxophonist – he plays tenor exclusively here – has said that Time Being's genesis lies in a mental audio-image...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: May/2017

GoGo Penguin

Chris Illingworth | Nick Blacka | Rob Turner

Much of the beauty of the new London jazz scene has been the music's reunion with black listeners, a replenishment...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2020

Booker Ervin Sextet, Quintet and Quartet: The Book Cooks/Cookin'/That's It!

Al Harewood | Booker Ervin | Dannie Richmond | George Tucker | Horace Parlan | Richard Williams | Tommy Flanagan | Tommy Turrentine | Zoot Sims

Booker Ervin was yet another gifted jazz musician who fell well short of racking up his allotted three score and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2012