Aaron Goldberg: The Now

Aaron Goldberg | Eric Harland | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Reuben Rogers

This is the fifth CD by the pianist Aaron Goldberg (Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis) with the former Charles Lloyd group...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Pete Oxley and Nicolas Meier: Travels to the West

Nicolas Meier | Pete Oxley

Pete Oxley and Nicolas Meier are bandmates in the reconfigured string quartet Eclectical, but the ten cuts on Travels to...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Carmen McRae: Complete Ralph Burns Sessions

These 1950s sessions are classic examples of early Carmen, with Ben Webster the star soloist on 11 of the 24...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012

Igor Butman: Only Now

Evgeny Pobozhly | Antonio Akkuratov | Antonio Sanchez | Eddie Gomez | Igor Butman | Matt Brewer

When Russian saxophonist Igor Butman celebrated his 60th birthday last year, he did it with a flourish. As befits a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2022

Marc Cary Focus Trio: Live 2009

David Ewell | Marc Cary | Sameer Gupta

Although Marc Cary's name is possibly not the first to spring to mind if talk turned to key figures in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2011

Herb Ellis/Joe Pass: Two For The Road

Two fine guitarists in 1970, duetting neatly, but without much passion, save for a breakneck ‘Cherokee’, and with a miserly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Aaron Parks: Arborescence

Aaron Parks

Aaron Parks is a young pianistcomposer who has very gradually grown in stature since his teenage years in Terence Blanchard's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Charles Lloyd: Quartets

Anders Jormin | Billy Hart | Bobo Stenson | Charles Lloyd | Jon Christensen | Palle Danilesson | Ralph Peterson

This five CD-set charts the sublime American saxophonist’s collaboration with brilliant but underrated pianist Bobo Stenson between 1989 and 1996....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2013

Mala Wadlron: Deep Resonance

A NYC resident singer songwriter with a legendary jazz father fronts a band of varied instrumentation singing her own mediocre...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Karin Krog: Don't Just Sing: An Anthology 1963-1999

John Surman | Jon Christensen | Karin Krog | Steve Kuhn | Steve Swallow

Encompassing everything from free jazz to standards to covers, this exceptional 16-track anthology provides ample proof why Karin Krog is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2015