Christian McBride Big Band: The Good Feeling

Carl Maraghi | Christian McBride | Douglas Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | James Burton | Loren Schoenberg | Melissa Walker | Michael Dease | Nabate Isles

The first big band release by the celebrated bassist and composer. It’s very retro but you have to listen carefully...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: November/2011

Noah Preminger/Broken Shadows/Gregory Tardy/Bill Frisell/Billy Lester/Kenny Werner/Hank Roberts: Newvelle Records: Seaso

Adopting a unique marketing strategy, first put into effect in 2015, Newvelle Records, co-founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Out of Necessity…: John Pope Quintet: Mixed With Glass

Faye MacCalman | Graham Hardy | Jamie Stockbridge | John Pope | Johnny Hunter

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Brad Mehldau's teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Out of Necessity…: Paul Taylor: Via

Paul Taylor

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Out of Necessity…: Laura Toxværd with Jacob Anderskov and Maria Faust: Calling – Graphic Notation in 3 Parts

Jacob Anderskov | Laura Toxværd | Maria Faust

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years

Andy Bassford | Carlton Messam | Dwight Dawes | Ed Thigpen | Ernest Ranglin | Hassan Shakur | Ira Coleman | Jason Brown | Karl Wright | Leon Duncan

Opening with a stunning 1995 solo performance of Alexander's original ‘The Serpent’, there's immediately no doubt that this latest Montreux...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023

Album Interview: Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons

Carl Maraghi | Christian McBride | Daryl Shaw | Doug Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | Geoffrey Keezer | James Burton | Lew Soloff | Loren Schoenberg

A great contemporary bassist, McBride has also become an important educator and advocate for both the artform and African-American culture...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020

Siobhan Lamb: Meditations

Andrew Fuller | Anne Morphee | Barak Schmool | Children's Choir | Christopher Macklin | Clare Finnimore | Gerard Presencer | Gregory Warren Wilson | Hugh Webb | Mary E. Larew

Classically trained flautist and composer Siobhan Lamb clearly enjoys mixing her sources and inspirations, as is demonstrated in these two...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2012

Album Interview: Christian McBride Big Band: Bringin' It

Brandee Younger | Brandon Lee | Carl Marachi | Christian McBride | Dan Pratt | Douglas Purviance | Frank Greene | Freddie Hendrix | James Burton | Joe McDonough

Christian McBride has an ebullient character – it bursts from his double-bass and it expands naturally to his writing and...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: October/2017