Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58

Gerry Mulligan | Harry 'sweets’ Edison | Herb Ellis | Louie Bellson | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Stan Getz

Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013

Bobby McFerrin: Vocabularies

Alex Acuna | Donny McCaslin | Janis Siegel | Lisa Fischer | Luciana Souza | Pedro Eustache | Roger Treece | Sussan Deyhim | Theo Bleckmann

McFerrrin's previous studio album, 2002's Beyond Words, arguably one of the most poetic jazz sets of the last decade, was,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2010

Louis Armstrong: The OKeh Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings 1925-33

Baby Dodds | Budd Johnson | Chick Webb | Don Redman | Earl Hines | Johnny Dodds | Keg Johnson | Kid Ory | Lawrence Brown | Lil Armstrong

The box title should be sufficient recommendation to anyone who doesn't possess this music already. This was the period when...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2013

Susan Alcorn Quintet: Pedernal

Mark Feldman | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Ryan Sawyer | Susan Alcorn

The Baltimore- based Susan Alcorn specialises in pedal steel guitar, an instrument that in America has its origins in country...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2020

Émile Parisien Quartet: Double Screening

Émile Parisien | Ivan Gélugne | Julien Lotterier | Julien Touéry

In jazz, everything seems to go in cycles, and during the last couple of years, the Paris jazz scene has...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019

Rainer Pflunt: Triangulations: Unit 9

Dagmar Kohl | Gretchen Farber | Rainer Pflunt | Szigmund Biedermayer

Uncompromising – check. Dedicated – check. Relentless – maybe. Ignorable – never. Rainer Pflunt studied briefl y with Karlheinz Stockhausen...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: July/2018

Jan Johansson/Rune Gustafsson: When the Sun Comes Out

The best selling jazz record in Sweden by some distance is none of your usual suspects – Kind of Blue,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Phil Meadows Group: Engines of Creation

Conor Chaplin | Elliot Galvin | Laura Jurd | Phil Meadows | Simon Roth

Bolton-born saxophonist Phil Meadows, currently the lead alto in NYJO, graduated from Trinity Laban only last year. Versatile and well-educated,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Kari Ikonen Trio: Bright

Ara Yaralyan | Kari Ikonen | Markku Ounaskari

There is no doubt that some of the most interesting music emerging from the current European jazz scene is from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013