Africando: Viva Africando

Dembel Diop | Dizzy Mandejeku | Doug Beavers | Elvis Ponce Ramos | Fabio Deldongo | Geraldo Rosales | Joe Rivera | Luisito Quintero | Miguel Gomez | Omar Sow

Africando are one of the greatest salsa orchestras on the planet, and one way overdue their dues. The sprawling line...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2013

Pete Oxley/Nicolas Meier: The Colours of Time: Duo and Quartet

Nicolas Meier | Paul Cavaciuti | Pete Oxley | Raph Mizraki

The Oxley-Meier axis grows ever richer. Following 2015's satisfying Chasing Tales, the pair toured and wrote and the results are...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2017

John Coltrane: Stardust

Art Taylor | Freddie Hubbard | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Paul Chambers | Red Garland | Wilbur Harden

We've reached a period where seemingly more attention is being paid to the works of Coltrane than to the great...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2019

Chet Baker: The Making of Chet Baker Sings

Bob Neel | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Jimmy Bond | Joe Mondragon | Larance Marable | Russ Freeman | Shelly Manne

It was only in July 2018 that Jazzwise reviewed the same label’s William Claxton Collection of Chet Baker albums, their...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Eyot: Similarity

Dejan Ilijic | Dejana Sekulic | Jake McMurchie | Marko Stojilkovic | Milos Vojvodic | Pete Judge | Sladan Milenovic

Get The Blessing bassist/producer Jim Barr liked this Serbian prog-jazz quartet enough when they met at their country's Nis jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2014

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire

Billy Cobham | Jan Hammer | Jerry Goodman | John McLaughlin | Rick Laird

By common consent the finest of all the original Mahavishnu Orchestra's recorded output, this Limited Edition SACD – even if...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

The Dissolute Society: Soldiering On

Fini Bearman | Gustav Clarkson | Huw Warren | Joshua Idehen | Laura Jurd | Mia Marlen Berg | Mike Soper | Naomi Burrell | Phil Merriman | Raph Clarkson

The Dissolute Society is a new octet led by British trombonist Raph Clarkson, of punk-jazz band WorldService Project. This debut...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: June/2018

Jim Hall: Jazzpar Quartet + Four

Jim Hall

This record dates from the time that guitarist Jim Hall was awarded the Danish Jazzpar Prize, when, like all winners,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2021

Lee Morgan/Clifford Jordan Quintet: Live in Baltimore 1968

Clifford Jordan | Ed Blackwell | John Hicks | Lee Morgan | Reggie Workman

The commercial success of The Sidewinder may have caused a few headaches for Alfred Lion searching vainly for a follow-up...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2014

Guillaume Barraud Quartet: Arcana: The Indo-Jazz Sessions

The French Bansuri flautist infuses his energetic compositions, based around Indian Raga, with meter-chopping Mahavishnu-influenced electric jazz but thankfully without...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018