Joe leader: Seductive Sax

This is one smooth jazz cliché after another: a live date at the Pheasantry, for the Dave Koz-recommended saxophonist....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Dave Douglas: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid

A wiser man than I on the Jazzwise crew has already named this as one of his top archive releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016

Lee Ritenour: Overtime

Swift reissue for this 2004 session by the fusion guitarist with some fine collaborators including Ernie Watts, Dave Grusin and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Bill Evans: Empathy + Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Connie Kay | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Monty Budwig | Percy Heath | Shelly Manne | Walter Perkins

This is relatively minor Evans, but interesting nevertheless. Dating from the year following Scott LaFaro's death, it avoids his new...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013

Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes

Bill Cunliffe | Bob Bowlby | Brian Sjoerdinga | Buddy Rich | Dave Cropener | Eric Mayashiro | James Mafrtin | Jay Craig | Joe Kaminsk | Mark Pinto

Back in 1985, there were rumours flying around that Buddy Rich's band was not what it once was. The gossip...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Quadraceratops

Cath Roberts | Dave O'Brien | Henry Spencer | Jason Simpson | Magnus Dearness | Olly Blackman | Tom Ward

Take your eyes off the action on the young jazz scene for one moment and a whole load of new...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Third Ear Band: Alchemy: Remastered and Expanded Edition

Dave Tomlin | Glen Sweeny | John Peel | Mel Davis | Paul Minns | Richard Coff

As uncategorisable today as they were back in the high hippie summers of 1968 and 1969, Third Ear Band had...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2019

Slowly Rolling Camera: Silver Shadow

Dave Stapleton | Deri Roberts | Elliot Bennett | Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Stuart McCallum | Verneri Pohjola | Victoria Stapleton

Setting up Edition Records in 2008 certainly made a dent in pianist/composer Dave Stapleton’s performing career. That ‘cottage industry’ label...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2024

Matt Calvert: Million Seller

Dave Smith | Kadialy Kouyate | Mamadou Sarr | Matt Calvert | Matthew Bourne | Sam Wilson | Ståle Storløkken

Calvert takes his cues from Herbie Hancock’s 1971 classic Mwandishi. And if you thought Hancock’s ground-breaking use of electric keys...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2023/2024

WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight

Arthur O’Hara | Ben Powling | Dave Morecroft | Kieran McLeod | Luke Reddin-Williams

WorldService Project's personnel have changed markedly since their first embattled Brexit response, Serve (2018), but the assaultive, defiant intent remains....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020