Jonny Mansfield: Elftet
This ambitious undertaking by 2018 Kenny Wheeler prize winner Jonny Mansfield, a percussionist who specialises in the vibes, marks the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019
Thomas Agergaard Quartet: Testing 1-2-3-4
Carsten Dahl | Lennart Ginman | Thomas Agergaard | Thomas Blachman
Agergaard is one of Denmark's top tenor saxophonists. He's been around the block and then some, and has refined what...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2020
Sultan Stevenson: El Roi
Jacob Gryn | Joel Waters | Josh Short | Soweto Kinch | Sultan Stevenson
In 2023 London pianist Sultan Stevenson broke cover with an impressive debut called Faithful One. It unveiled a classic-yet-contemporary sound,...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2025
The North with Norma Winstone: Wheeler with Words
Anders Mogensen | Johnny Åman | Mike Murley | Nikki Isles | Norma Winstone | Percy Pursglove
The lives and music of Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone (and of course John Taylor) remain so entwined that where the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
JD Allen: Grace
David Pitch | Jay Bellerose | Kenny Banks Sr | Lizz Wright | Marvin Sewell
Another courageous step into the future by the tenor saxophonist, who is rapidly becoming one of the most eloquent and...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2017
Leo Smith: Divine Love
Bobby Naughton | Charlie Haden | Dwight Andrews | Kenny Wheeler | Leo Smith | Lester Bowie
A key entry in the Smith discography, cut in the pre-Wadada days, Divine Love is an album that wears its...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019
Coleman Hawkins: Desafi nado/Bluesy Burrell
Tenorist Coleman Hawkins was an interesting and unique figure in jazz. He was among a whole generation of Swing Era...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2013
Rick Simpson: Klammer
Dave Hamblett | George Crowley | Michael Chillingworth | Ralph Wyld | Rick Simpson | Tom Farmer
Klammer is the hugely impressive sophomore recording of originals and ensemble arrangements by the gifted 2008 Guildhall graduate and pianist-keyboardist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017
Tom Smith's Gecko: Gecko
Jonny Mansfield | Tom Smith | Will Barry
On their debut album Gecko, the saxophonist-composer Tom Smith and his trio sound like old hands at the kind of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021
Roy Haynes: Three Classic Albums: Plus We Three/Just Us/Out Of The Afternoon/Jazz Abroad
For this writer one of the most enduring images of the bebop era is a photograph of Charlie Parker being...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013
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