Kenny Burrell: Tenderly

This tasteful album is the first solo-guitar outing in Kenny Burrell's long archive, a surprising fact since for many years...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2020

Henri Texier: Hope Quartet

François Corneloup | Henri Texier | Louis Moutin | Sébastien Texier

Henri Texier is one of the great pillars of contemporary French jazz. He originally came to international prominence as a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2014

Alex Acuña: Gifts

Alex Acuña | John Peña | Lorenzo Ferrero | Otmaro Ruiz | Ramón Stagnaro

Alex Acuña has played on close to 900 albums and soundtracks in 60-plus years as a unique percussionist – with...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2022

Émile Parisien Quartet: Spezial Snack

Émile Parisien | Ivan Gélugne | Julien Touéry | Sylvain Darrifourcq

This is the kind of super-smart, semi-abstracted, hyper-deconstructed music making that benefits greatly from a little interpretive contextualisation to help...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2014

Various: Disney Jazz Vol 1 Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

A compilation of made-for-jazz Disney tunes, featuring Esperanza Spalding, Roy Hargrove, Dianne Reeves and The Bad Plus among others, might...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Tingvall Trio: Beat

Adrian Belew | Bill Bruford | Robert Fripp | Tony Levin

The Tingvall Trio, comprising Martin Tingvall from Sweden, Omar Rodriguez Calvo from Cuba and Jürgen Spiegel from Germany, have been...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016

Steve Tyrell: I'll Take Romance

Mainly known as a big hit producer, Tyrell brings a slightly croaky quality to Vegasstyle crooning in a classy Bob...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Olga Konkova: The Goldilocks Zone

Russian pianist Konkova sets her impressionistic classical-influenced piano meditations effectively against Norwegian husband/bassist Per Mathisen and heavyweight John McLaughlin drummer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Bob Mintzer | Christian McBride | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | John Scofield | Kenny Werner | Larry Goldings | Nguyên Lê | Peter Erskine | Vince Mendoza

Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Gary Peacock: Tangents

Gary Peacock | Joey Baron | Marc Copland

Beyond his legend-making free jazz work with Albert Ayler, the double-bassist Gary Peacock has had one of the most extraordinary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017