Snowpoet: Wait For Me

Alex Haines | Alice Zawadzki | Chris Hyson | Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Lauren Kinsella | Lloyd Haines | Matthew Robinson

The word Snowpoet, alone, steers the ear toward the intimate and abstracted landscapes of this album. The duo of Chris...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2021

José James: No Beginning No End

Chris Dave | Emily King | Hindi Zahra | José James | Kris Bowers | Lionel Loueke | Pino Palladino | Robert Glasper

Cynics may decry this latest chapter in the 33 year-old American vocalist's career as his lunge for the commercial jugular...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013

Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas

Dexter Gordon | Eric Ineke | Henk Haverhoek | Rein De Graaff

Dexter Gordon is one of those rare players in jazz where almost everything he recorded is of great interest today...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Vula Viel: Good is Good

Bex Burch | Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | Jim Hart | Simon Roth | Stephen Bure

Learning hand-to-hand triplets on the djembe before studying classical percussion at the Guildhall, the Yorkshire-born Bex Burch had set off...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Charles Evans: On Beauty

A Baritone sax specialist joins his mentor Dave Liebman on soprano, their dense conversational narratives combining passionately in a suite...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Muhal Richard Abrams: Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note Vol. 2

Amina Claudine Myers | Anthony Braxton | Anthony Davis | Dave Holland | Douglas Ewart | Henry Threadgill | John Blake | Leonard Jones | Leroy Jenkins | Malachi Favors

While a number of leading contemporary pianists, from Jason Moran to Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer, are happy to cite...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Various Artists: Jazz – 10 Classic Albums

Billie Holiday | Charlie Mingus | Chet Baker | Count Basie | Dave Brubeck | Duke Ellington | Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Stan Getz | Thelonious Monk

Long long ago Tony Blackburn proudly revealed that he didn’t like jazz before adding that he was a huge fan...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Sean Khan Presents the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble: Volume 1

Andy Noble | Danny Keane | Dave Pegg | Gerry Diver | Jacqui McShee | Kindelan | Laurie Lowe | Max Baillie | Mirko Scarcia | Miya Vaisanen

Jazz and folk have always danced together, and Khan celebrates that alliance with a special focus on great singer-songwriters of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2024

Duke Ellington: Highlights of the Great 1940-1942 Band

One or two European reissues aside, RCA's own CDs of the Blanton-Webster band largely suffered from poor sound quality, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Basak Yavuz: Things…

A young Istanbul-based vocalist is joined by one of her mentors Dave Liebman for her debut and sings Turkish originals...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014