Andrew Woolf: Song Unsung

Andrew Woolf | Dave Manington | Joe Auckland | Rob Updegraff | Simon Roth

As a member of Alvorada, Andrew Woolf is a leading light in the UK choro scene, choro being a style...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2021

Big Screen: Take One

Dave Newton | Matt Skelton | Tom Farmer

It's funny how an unapologetically glossy traditional piano trio take on popular TV and film themes can start to sound...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Stan Sulzmann/Nikki Iles: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles showed just how much lyrical imagination, restrained virtuosity and empathy they possess as a sax/...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2020

James Brandon Lewis: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis | Kirk Knuffke

For the past decade American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has been gathering an impressive head of creative steam through his...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023

Sonny Stitt: Only The Blues

Herb Ellis | Jimmy Jones | Jo Jones | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Roy Eldridge | Sonny Stitt | Stan Levey

Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt may have both drunk from the same well, but you could never mistake ...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3

Alan Downey | Bob Sydor | Brian Smith | Bud Parks | Danny Moss | Dave Lynane | John Donnelly | Martin Drover | Maynard Ferguson | Mike Bailey

The letters MF were of course Maynard Ferguson’s initials, but their secondary adjectival meaning also fitted the extrovert Canadian’s prowess...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2013

Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans: Legendary Quartet/Quintet Sessions

Barry Galbraith | Bill Evans | Bill Russo | Blue Mitchell | Cannonbal Adderley | Connie Kay | Emmett Berry | Jimmy Cobb | Milt Hinton | Percy Heath

There can never be enough Adderley and, if this isn't his best, it's still most welcome. The three albums here...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014

Josephine Davies: Satori

Dave Whitford | Josephine Davies | Paul Clarvis

Just as in a card game blow-hard bluffers can risk overplaying their hands, so in music hard-blowing jazzers are sometimes...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Quincy Jones: Live In Paris 5-7-9 Mars/19 Avril 1960

Hard on the heels of the Scandinavian Harry Arnold collaboration reviewed last month comes this dazzling Paris set by Q's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Gerald Cannon: Combinations

Duane Eubanks | Gary Bartz | Gerald Cannon | Jeremy Pelt | Kenny Barron | Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Sherman Irby | Steve Slagle | Will Calhoun

It's been 14 years since highly respected veteran bassist Cannon brought out an album under his own name. You probably...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2017