Various Artists: Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musician’s Emergency Fund

Hiromi | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Charles Lloyd | Christian McBride | Esperanza Spalding | Herbie Hancock | Jon Batiste | Joshua Redman | Kenny Garrett | Kindred Spirits

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

Delfeayo Marsalis: Uptown on Mardi Gras Day

Alexi Marti | Amari Ansari | Andrew Baham | Arnold Little III | Branford Marsalis | Brice Miller | Chris Severin | Davell Crawford | David Pulphus | Delfeayo Marsalis

The concept behind this album is an interesting one, aiming to fuse the big band tradition with both the New...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023

Will Todd: Passion Music/Jazz Missa Brevis

Popular classical/choral composer Will Todd attempts to integrate Christian choral works with stylised elements from jazz and gospel-pop, the centrepiece...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49

Bud Powell | Charlie Christian | Charlie Parker | Coleman Hawkins | Dexter Gordon | Dizzy Gillespie | Django Reinhardt | Don Byas | Ella Fitzgerald | Fats Navarro

We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Pacific Mambo Orchestra: The III Side

Aaron Lington | Alex Britti | Anthony Blea | Armando Cordoba | Benny Torres | Braulio Barrera | Carlos Caro | Christelle Durandy | Christian Tumalan | Dafnis Prieto

Pacific Mambo Orchestra is the sort of wish-list outfit Latinophiles dream about. On this third album, the West Coast juggernaut...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2020

Various Artists: Soho Scene ’57: Jazz Goes Mod

Art Blakey | Art Pepper | Barney Kessel | Carl Perkins | Charles Mingus | Dave Lee | Derek Smith | Dick Heckstall-Smith | Dizzy Reece | Don Rendell

In the latest of these valuable compilations, the focus is on the contrasting UK and US modern jazz scenes as...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024

Jimmy Raney: Live In Tokyo

Barry Harris | Leroy Williams | Sam Jones

A sister release to Charles McPherson's CD that bears the same title. This is indeed the same band minus McPherson...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2016

David Kikoski: Consequences

Christian McBride | David Kikoski | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts

So much is written about Keith Jarrett, Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran, one tends to overlook a pianist like David...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2012

Various Artists: Soho Scene ’66, ’67: Jazz Goes Mod

Dudley Moore | Harry Humphrey Lyttelton | Jimmy McGriff | Les McCann | Lionel Hampton | Milt Jackson | Ronnie Ross | Ronnie Scott | Stan Tracey | Tubby Hayes

For this latest 4CD sound- picture Rhythm and Blues Records has again found some gems from unlikely sources, and included...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2020