Brad Allen Williams: Lamar

Not sure that the jazz world needs another dedicated ‘classic’ organ trio recording, but the guitarist Brad Allen Williams, a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Daniel Carter/Hilliard Greene/David Haney: Live Constructions

Not only playing together for the first time, but also not knowing what the hell they're going to play, free...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

John Raymond: Strength & Song

Not long out of college, here's another impressive NY-based trumpeter-composer (and quintet) with a centered tone, fresh ideas and bluesy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Kenny G: Rahul Sharma Namaste

Has the Grammy award-winning pop saxist really gone all Indo-jazz on us? Not while he's still playing the same signature...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

This is a significant snapshot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in excellent fidelity, that numbers among Brubeck’s finest live albums...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

McCoy Tyner/Freddie Hubbard Quartet: Like at Fabrik

Avery Sharpe | Freddie Hubbard | Louis Hayes | McCoy Tyner

This major musical gem just dropped from the vaults of the German radio station NDR and deserves all the brouhaha...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2022

James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon

Chad Taylor | Chris Hoffman | James Brandon Lewis | Kirk Knuffe | William Parker

Following 2020's excellent quartet album, Molecular, saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns with a very different ensemble, the Red Lily quintet,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2021

Raul de Souza Generations Band: Plenitude

Alex Corrêa | Christope Schweizer | Glauco Solter | Matheus Jardim | Raul de Souza

I was just typing up my review of this album last month when the sad news came through of de...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021

Dexter Gordon: A Swingin' Affair

Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Dexter Gordon | Sonny Clark

A Swingin’ Affair was the second of Gordon’s 1962 recorded Blue Note sessions, taped a day after the similarly iconic...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019

Nik Bärtsch: Entendre

Nik Bärtsch

The closer ECM Records' founder Manfred Eicher pays attention to a particular session, the more it makes one want to...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2021