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

Joe Morris: Shock Axis

Chris Cretella | Dave Parmelee | Joe Morris

Sometimes too much is, well, just a little too much. East Coast veteran Joe Morris has made a name for...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2016

I Work In Communications: Kiss My Emoji Ring

Dave De Rose | George Crowley | Marius Mathiszik

Thanks to the pandemic, the notion of remote musical collaboration has become almost a commonplace, even for improvisatory musicians. Athens-based...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2022

The Exu

Dave Kane | Emil Karlsen | James Mainwaring

The final track on this new trio’s impressive debut is dedicated to saxophonist Tim Berne, which gives a pretty good...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2025

Jamil Sheriff: The Debt

Dave Walsh | Jamil Sheriff | Sam Quintana

Jamil Sheriff is a pivotal figure on the rich Northern jazz scene, both in his role as an educator at...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: April/2025

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

Basil Hodge: A Point of Reference

Basil Hodge | Ed Jones | Oli Hayhurst | Winston Clifford

Pianist and composer Basil Hodge established himself on the British jazz scene in the 1990s before releasing his widely-acclaimed debut,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2022

Geoff Eales: Memoir

Andy Findon | Geoff Eales | Ray Roughler Jones

Who wouldn’t want to spend an hour in the genial company of Geoff Eales? Recorded as a solo celebration for...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

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

Ron Jackson: Standards & My Songs

Ben Wolfe | Ron Jackson | Willie Jones III

Jackson, born in the Philippines when his father was there in the military, grew up in Boston and was educated...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022