Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton | Brandy | Casey Benjamin | Common | Derrick Hodge | Dwele | Emeli Sandé | Faith Evans | Glasper | Jill Scott

Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Album Interview: Colin Steele Quintet: Even in the Darkest Places

Calum Gourlay | Colin Steele | Dave Milligan | Michael Buckley | Stu Ritchie

The album title reflects a gruelling five-year period for Colin Steele following a series of events that revolved around him...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

Adam Birnbaum | Darcy James Argue | Ingrid Jensen | Jacob Garchik | John Ellis | Matt Clohesy | Matt Holman | Sam Sadigursky | Sebastian Noelle

Secret Society, says the sleeve notes, make music that is topical and unabashedly political. Well, thank goodness someone is. Railing...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023

Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels

Keith Jarrett

Like the sinuous violin that links the movements of Rimsky-Korsakov's ‘Scheherazade Op. 35’, representing the voice of Scheherazade telling stories...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Jon Irabagon: Inaction Is Action

Jon Irabagon | Luis Perdomo | Rudy Royston | Tom Harrell | Yasushi Nakamura

If you are very good – like one of the greatest tenor saxophonists that ever lived – such as Coleman...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2015

Various Artists: Jazz On Film – The New Wave II

Barney Wilen | Cleo Laine | David Raksin | Donald Byrd | Johnny Dankworth | Michel Legrand

This starry, talent-packed deluxe box, containing eight CDs and a dcopious stills-illustrated booklet, enlarges on the Moochin' About label's first...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: August/2016

Walter Bishop Jnr’s 4th Cycle: Keeper Of My Soul

Bahir Hassan | Gerald Brown | Ronnie Laws | Shakur M Abdulla | Walter Bishop | Woody Murray

Held in high regard in collectors’ circles for albums such as Soul Village and Coral Keys, pianist Walter Bishop Jnr...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

The Allman Brothers Band: The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings

Berry Oakley | Butch Trucks | Dickie Betts | Duane Allman | Gregg Allman | Jaimoe Johanson

Lords of extended blues into jazz-rock improvisation, the Allman Brothers' finest hour was their 1971 double album Live At Fillmore...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: September/2014

Soft Machine: Tales Of Taliesin The EMI Years Anthology 1975-1981

Alan Parker | Alan Wakeman | Allan Holdsworth | Dick Morrissey | Jack Bruce | John Etheridge | John Marshall | John Perry | Karl Jenkins | Mike Ratledge

After the reissue of Bundles and Alive And Well comes this comprehensive take on what some suggest is a ‘cruelly’...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011

Freddy Cole: Singing the Blues

Making his debut in 1964, Nat's little brother returns to sing the blues from Bobby Bland's ‘This Time I'm Gone...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015