Sean Jones: Live from Jazz at the Bistro

The suave, free bop-rooted trumpeter's 12-year-old band's (including the pianist Orrin Evans) first ‘live’ album, and his eighth for this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones: Joint Control

Spellbinding acoustic folk-jazz and blues from the guitar masters, recorded just before Renbourn died in 2015....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Dizzy Gillespie/Dave Brubeck: Live at Newport

For Gillespie fans the prospect of three tracks from Have Trumpet Will Excite plus an extended blues played by the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas | Joe Lovano | Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Lina Oh

There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out

Dave Whitford | Richard Fairhurst | Tim Giles

Richard Fairhurst has an impressive pedigree. Five years after beginning to learn the piano at the age of 15, he...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: July/2024

Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus

Alan Jackson | Bruce Turner | Dave Green | Lol Coxhill | Michael Garrick

One of the delights of recovering jazz recordings from the archives is hearing studio chatter among the musicians, busy sound...

Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: August/2024

Frank Wess and Thad Jones: Opus De Blues

Swinging, but inventively contemporary, mainstream from the great saxophonist and Thad (plus brother Hank) on fine form with an all-star...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Dave Grusin: Piano, Strings and Moonlight

Because Grusin is such a capable pianist and his trio with Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson so polished, their jazz...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Dave King: I've been Ringing You

This isn't what you might expect from the drummer of The Bad Plus, but anyone familiar with pianist Bill Carrothers'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

J Frisco: Cut Throat

Jemma Freese | Lara Jones | Megan Roe

Cut Throat invites an expansive view of music; it follows the line of jazz as a raw roar of expression,...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: March/2021