Bob Berg: New Birth

Al Foster | Bob Berg | Cedar Walton | Mike Richmond | Sam Figueroa | Tom Harrell

Bob Berg died in a traffic accident in 2002; he was 51. The shorthand view is that he was a...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: June/2016

Sun Ra And His Interplanetary Vocal Arkestra: The Space Age is Here To Stay

Eddie Thomas | Ensemble | Hattie Randolph | James Jacson | John Gilmore | June Tyson | Michael Ray | Sun Ra | Tyrone Hill

This compilation of tracks from Sun Ra's vast discography focuses on the vocal aspect of his work rather than the...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: November/2016

Ran Blake/Sara Serpa: Aurora

The Portuguese New York-based Serpa's eerily oblique but also tenderly lyrical reading of some Broadway/film songs is on the same...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Count Basie: On My Way and Shoutin’ Again/Not Now, I’ll Tell You When

Two early 1960s Basie classics, originally on Verve and Roulette, make a good contrast between Neal Hefti’s writing and charts...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

José James: Lean On Me

Brad Allen Williams | José James | Kris Bowers | Lalah Hathawy | Marcus Strickland | Nate Smith | Pino Palladino | Takuya Kuroda

James's recent foray into FM-friendly contemporary R&B has yielded mixed results and at times the more explicitly commercial slant of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018

Hasse Poulsen/Debbie Cameron/Luc Ex/Mark Sanders: The Langston Project

Debbie Cameron | Hasse Poulsen | Luc Ex | Mark Sanders

The general consensus is, certainly among those who made the gig, that Ron McCurdy and Ice T's Langston Hughes project...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2016

Bastian Stein: Viktor

Bastian Stein | James Maddren | Johannes Enders | Phil Donkin

This is the second Pirouet release (and third release overall as leader) from German trumpeter Bastian Stein. In terms of...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2016

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson

Just like the above album this is identical to the Essential Jazz Classics issue reviewed in 2012, and while not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Mraz & Viklicky: Duo Art Together Again

A pair of high level Czech jazz veterans reunited: the prolifi c bassist George Mraz and pianist Emil Vicklicky improvise...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014

Otis Redding: The King of Soul

Exhaustive 4 CD 97 track set of the iconic singer and composer’s Volt, Stax and Atco sides from 1962 until...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014