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

Arild Andersen/Daniel Sommer/ Rob Luft: As Time Passes

Arild Andersen | Daniel Sommer | Rob Luft

Arild Andersen has long worn the mantle ‘Bass Legend’ with distinction, his playing here as effortless as it is faultless....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024

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

Milford Graves: Bäbi

Arthur Doyle | Hugh Glover | Milford Graves

Originally released in 1977 on Institute of Percussive Studies, the label founded by Graves and fellow free-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

John Coltrane: The Pianists' Touch

Art Taylor | Doug Watkins | Elvin Jones | Idrees Sulieman | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | John Simmons | Kenny Burrell | Louis Hayes

It’s a good month for studio-recorded Coltrane, the Phoenix album combining his Prestige outings Mating Call and The Cats, originally...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013

Keith Jarrett: Munich 2016

Keith Jarrett

Recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie on 16 July, 2016, the last night of his European tour, Jarrett arrives at the piano...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2020

Chet Baker: Chet: The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker

Bill Evans | Bob Corwin | Bud Shank | Chet Baker | Clifford Jarvis | Connie Kay | Earl May | Herbie Mann | Jack Montrose | Joe Mondragon

The plethora of Chet Baker reissues continues and each of these releases has something to commend it, although the bonus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2020

Orlando Le Fleming: Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar

Kush Abadey | Nate Wood | Orlando Le Fleming | Philip Dizack | Sean Wayland | Will Vinson

Royal Academy-schooled bassist Le Fleming was already an in-demand UK-based sideman before taking off in 2003 for New York where...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

New York All-Stars: Burnin' In London

Bernd Reiter | Darryl Hall | Eric Alexander | Harold Mabern

The stars on this sparkling quartet recording from London Soho's Pizza Express jazz club are two New Yorkers with a...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2018