Shirley Scott: Superstition

Clifford Davis | Grady Tate | Jimmy Owens | Ramon Morris | Richard Evans | Ron Carter | Shirley Scott

Released on CD for the first time, Superstition was the last of the three albums that ‘Queen Of The Organ’...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014

Scott Hamilton: Swinging Young Scott

This 1977 session showed just what a brilliant player Hamilton was in the older style, backed by a youthful Warren...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015

Scott Hamilton/Dany Doriz: Scott Hamilton Plays With the Dany Doriz Orchestra

Dany Doriz | Didier Dorise | Marc Fosset | Patricia Lebeugle | Philippe Duchemin | Ronald Baker | Scott Hamilton

Doriz runs the Caveau de la Huchette club in Paris and is something of a veteran of French mainstream jazz,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2014

Anders and Christian Jormin: Provenance

A Swedish duo of long-time Bobo Stenson bass man Anders and his pianist/percussionist brother Christian perform patient, quiet yet tenderly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Knoel Scott feat Marshall Allen: Celestial

Charlie Stacey | Chris Henderson | Knoel Scott | Marshall Allen | Mikele Montilli

There’s a glorious tradition of talented sax players who shunned the limelight to spend almost their entire careers as loyal...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2023

Scott Hamilton: Classics

Hand Backenroth | Jan Lundgren | Kristian Leth | Scott Hamilton

Hamilton’s inaugural album for the US Concord label was recorded in 1977 and released as Scott Hamilton Is A Good...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2022

Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn

Andrew Joslyn | Christian Sands | Eli Weinburger | Grégoire Maret | Marvin Sewell | Ross Gilliland | Ryan Sands | Warren Wolf | Yasushi Nakamura

This album was conceived by Sands (who wrote all the material save for a somewhat abstract version of ‘Good Morning...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024

Christian McBride and Inside Straight: People Music

Carl Allen | Christian McBride | Christian Sands | Peter Martin | Steve Wilson | Ulysses Owens Jr | Warren Wolf

Christian McBride's straight-ahead project might not break any boundaries but, like the leader's propulsive bass playing, it certainly packs a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013

Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson: Winter In America

Biran Jackson | Bob Adams | Danny Bowens | Gil Scott-Heron

Although the recent CD, I'm New Here has been generally lauded as a return to form after years in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2010

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017