Mezcla: Shoot the Moon

Alan Benzie | Ben MacDonald | David Bowden | Joshua Elcock | Michael Butcher | Stephen Henderson | Steve Forman

Former BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year David Bowden also plays bass on the limpidly beautiful, locally nostalgic folk-jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Andy Bey: Andy & The Bey Sisters

Andy Bey | Barney Wilen | Geraldine | Kenny Clarke | Kenny Dorham | Paul Rovere | Rayu Ellis | Salome Bey

Although it is worth noting that the family vocal trio made more of an impact in Europe than in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Karou Abe/Sabu Toyozumi: Mannyoka

Karou Abe | Sabu Toyozumi

In the light of the recently discovered ‘lost’ recordings by such jazz legends as Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and John...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: November/2018

Noah Preminger: Genuinity

Dan Weiss | Jason Palmer | Kim Cass | Noah Preminger

Noah Preminger's last album was a set of protest-themed originals and covers timed to coincide with the inauguration of President...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2018

Ernestine Anderson: Four Classic Albums

Anderson is a much-neglected US singer whose excellent work here with the big bands of Ernie Wilkins, Pete Rugulo and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Various Artists: Voices in Modern

A curious anthology mingling Blossom Dearie's Verve album Soubrette with miscellaneous offerings from Lambert, Hendricks, Ross and Les Double Six....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Liam Noble: A Room Somewhere

Liam Noble

In the age of music downloads, is it worth even thinking about cover art anymore, never mind discussing it in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk & Soul

Adolpho Acosta | Bruce Conte | Chester Thompson | David Eskridge | David Garibaldi | Emilio Castillo | Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia | Jerry Cortez | Lenny Pickett | Marc van Wageningen

Get out your red zimmer, baby, you're going out to dance. Well, what can you say? This wasn't so much...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2021

Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie: Winter Garden

Eraldo Bernocchi | Harold Budd | Robin Guthrie

I was lucky to first hear Winter Garden while trapped in the middle of a Siberian snow storm. Just as...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2012

Ann Malcolm: The Crystal Paperweight

A songwriting partnership, made up of an airy Norma Winstone-like Swiss-based vocalist and consummate post-bop veteran trumpeter Tom Harrell, fronts...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011