Dave Meder: Unamuno Songs & Stories

The 31-year-old pianist-composer Meder draws on a broad range of influences from classical, ragtime, modernism from Monk to Shearing through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Dave Pell: Four Classic Albums

The tenorist has already got one such collection on Avid and this adds to the set with two sessions from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Dave Stryker: Eight Track III

This guitarist's working B-3 trio joins forces with vibraphonist Stefon Harris for a greasy zero-angst MOR workout on some 1970s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

John Scofield: Electric Outlet

Darryl Jones | Dave Sanborn | Don Grolnick | John Scofield | Omar Hakim | Peter Levin | Ray Anderson

It's no surprise that Sco thanks Miles ‘for everything’ on Electric Outlet. Sco's work on Decoy and You're Under Arrest...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Carmell Jones: The Remarkable/Business Meeting

Two classic albums by the young K.C. born trumpeter, also worth celebrating for Harold Land on tenor and Gerald Wilson’s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2013

Jihye Lee Orchestra: Daring Mind

Sean Jones

A decade ago, South Korean former indie-pop singer Jihye Lee found her way to Boston's Berklee College of Music as...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2021

Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk

Carmell Jones | Francy Boland | Jimmy Woode | Kenny Clarke | Nathan Davis

Jones and Davis knew each other as youngsters in Kansas City, their home town, and this German session marked their...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2023

Dave Brubeck: At Wilshire-Ebell

The original Fantasy album of Brubeck playing to enthusiastic college crowds was reissued a year or two back on Fresh...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

HankJones: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter Vol. 2

Hank Jones | Mads Vinding | Shelly Manne

Taking a standard like ‘All The Things You Are’ and finding fresh things to say on the head, and then...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2020

Nubya Garcia : Odyssey

Daniel Casimir | Joe Armon-Jones | Nubya Garcia | Sam Jones

This new album from the multi-award-winning tenorist, bandleader and composer, Nubya Garcia, which follows her 2020 release on Concord Jazz,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2024