James Brandon Lewis: Divine Travels

Gerald Cleaver | James Brandon Lewis | Thomas Sayers Ellis | William Parker

Gospel music's longstanding and rich relationship with the saxophone in both R&B and jazz can be heard in anybody from...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Carmen Souza: The Silver Messengers

An interesting tribute to Horace Silver: this squeaky-voiced, yet rich-toned London-based singer shares a Cape Verdean heritage with the soul...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Digby Fairweather: Digby Fairweather Archives: Chris Ellis

Bobby Worth | Brian Lemon | Chris Ellis | Collin Bates | Denny Wright | Digby Fairweather | Ellis | Fairweather | Harvey Weston | John Barnes

A multiplicity of tracks and sessions issued anew on Fairweather's own label. As befits the instigator of the National Jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2014

Dave Brubeck: At Pennsylvania State University 1955

The Brubeck/Desmond partnership in live concert, dubbed from a privately produced LP of the event, has some fine music, despite...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Louis Armstrong: Complete Louis Armstrong: Vol. 10. 1941–44

A project like this is at its best when it fills gaps, and this invaluable 3–CD set takes us through...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Sphere

Alexi Tuomarila | Mats Eilertsen | Olavi Louhivuori | Verneri Pohjola

Though Glenn Gould and Alexi Tuomarila are two quite different pianists with two quite different musical outlooks, they do share...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

The Jeff Hamilton Trio: Catch Me If You Can

Jeff Hamilton

Now 67, Hamilton is a senior pro among US drummers whose wide-ranging discography includes albums with Woody Herman, Monty Alexander...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2020

National Youth Jazz Orchestra: She Said

Alex Taylor | Alice Durand | Alice Leggett | Christos Stylianides | Daniel Higham | Ed Parr | Eddie Curtis | Eva Fidler | Featuring Josephine Davies | Freddie Benedict

She Said reflects an ongoing ambition by NYJO to re-shape the gender mix not only of its own projects but...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Etta Jones: A Soulful Sunday

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Etta Jones | Sam Jones

Zev Feldman, of the justly celebrated archival specialists Resonance Records, is the co-partner in Reel to Real with Cory Weeds...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2019

Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit: For The Blue Notes

Alan Tomlinson | Alexander Hawkins | Henry Lowther | Jason Yarde | John Edwards | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Ntshuks Bonga

While rightly regarded as one of the most fiery and energetic of players imaginable, Moholo-Moholo also makes music that has...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014