Yazz Ahmed: Finding My Way Home
If pressed to name a significant figure to emerge in UK jazz this century, I’d personally argue for Yazz Ahmed,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/2024
Alex Bone: Falling on Infinity
Alex Bone | Cory Wong | Joe Lee | Luke Tomlinson | Nile Rodgers | Oliver Mason
Aged just 17, alto saxophonist Alex Bone won the inaugural BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition in 2014,...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/January/2021/2022
JD Allen: Queen City
JD Allen joins the likes of Sonny Rollins and David Murray as one of the very few musicians to attempt...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021
Lem Winchester: New Faces At Newport/A Tribute To Clifford Brown
Don't know about nowadays, but the vibraphone was once regarded as the most difficult instrument to record; the sound of...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Sam Barnett Quintet: New York-London Quintet
Laurence Wilkins | Michele Montolli | Sam Barnett | Timur Pak | Zoe Pascal
I thought the young man cradling a sax on the CD sleeve looked young; almost young enough to be in...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2017
Ben Williams: Coming Of Age
Andy Hague | Ben Waghorn | Chris Jones | Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam
Even before he landed a high profile gig with Pat Metheny, Ben Williams attracted attention through impressive work with the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle
Jarle Vespestad | Mats Eilartsen | Tord Gustavsen | Tore Brunborg
Concluding a six-album cycle, and the final one of three albums by the quartet within that overarching structure, this is...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Various Artists: Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musician’s Emergency Fund
In March 2020, a consortium of record labels – Blue Note, Concord Music Group, Mack Avenue Music Group, Nonesuch Records,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021
McLaughlin/Surman/Berger/Martin/Holland: Where Fortune Smiles
Dave Holland | John McLaughlin | John Surman | Karl Berger | Stu Martin
When Fortune Smiles has been reissued previously with the emphasis on McLaughlin, not surprisingly as he appears the stellar object...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017
Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club
Jesse Davis | Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | Spike Wilner
New Orleans-born altoist Davis, now 57, studied under the late Ellis Marsalis in his home town and then made for...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023
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