Timo Lassy: Moves

On his sixth album to date, the Finnish saxophonist of Five Corners Quintet mostly leads the Ricky-Tick Big Band Brass,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Oscar Peñas: From Now On

Dan Blake | Franco Pinna | Gil Goldstein | Moto Fukushima | Oscar Peñas | Richie Borshay

This is the twenty-seventh CD on the consistently wide-ranging Brooklyn Jazz Underground label. You never know what to expect and...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Dexter Gordon/Slide Hampton: A Day In Copenhagen

Art Taylor | Dexter Gordon | Dizzy Reece | Kenny Drew | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Slide Hampton

How good it is to have this album in circulation again! Never the best-known of records, it’s probably Gordon’s finest...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2022

Satoko Fujii Min Yoh Ensemble: Watershed

Min Yoh translates to Japanese folk music, and it's unusually brass and accordionbased here in a thoroughly absorbing set by...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Philip Lewis Rhythm Maniacs: The Hottest Recordings Featuring Arthur Lally, Sylvester Ahola and Danny Polo

1920s hot dance music by a stilted British band with almost nothing to commend it except sociological curiosity....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2011

Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix

Angela Davis | EJ Strickland | Ivan Taylor | Jahmal Nichols | Josh Evans | Lakecia Benjamin | Nega Santos | Orange Rodriguez Anastassiya Petrova | Sonia Sanchez | Victor Gould

Star of last year's orchestral tribute to Charles Mingus at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Lakecia Benjamin has proved herself capable...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023

Ulf & Eric Wakenius: Father and Son

Eric Wakenius | Ulf Wakenius

Did you know that Cat Stevens was Swedish? Actually, you can't have ‘known’ that, either before or now, because it's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2017

Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Slippery Rock

Led by bassist Moppa Elliot, MOPDTK (starring trumpeter Peter Evans and saxophonist Jon Irabagon) shake things up with their raw,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Wadada Leo Smith Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies

Henry Threadgill | Jack DeJohnette | John Lindberg | Jonathan Haffner | Wadada Leo Smith

As he stated himself in the pages of Jazzwise last year, Wadada Leo Smith’s productivity has only increased amid the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2022

Fredrik Kronkvist: Kronicles

Fredrik Kronkvist | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Martin Sjostedt | Orrin Evans

If proof is required that there are still some musicians in Sweden who can swing hard and soulfully, check out...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Feb/2019