Eric Alexander: Don't Follow The Crowd
Eric Alexander | Harold Mabern | Joe Farnsworth | Nat Reeves
It's good to hear Eric Alexander in a quartet setting, unimpeded as he too often is by other hornmen compatible...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2011
Alex Sipiagin: Moments Captured
We really are being blessed with some marvellous music on record this year and here is another brilliant CD from...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2017
Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock: Whispering of the Stars
This is Smith and Kellock's third duo collaboration on record and perhaps more than its predecessors is revealing of an...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014
Neil Ardley: A Symphony Of Amaranths
Sometimes a recording is special not for its content but for what it signifies. This welcome, long-awaited first CD release...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2013
Helen Burnett: When First I Saw You There
Featuring a mix of originals and standards, When First I Saw You There is the debut album from London-based jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014
Ralph Alessi Quartet: Quiver
Drew Gress | Gary Versace | Nasheet Waits | Ralph Alessi
The Californian, New York-based ex-Steve Coleman trumpeter Ralph Alessi releases his second quartet recording for ECM with a telling change...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016
Tom Scott: Blow It Out/Intimate Strangers/Street Beat
If you must point a finger at a clutch of albums that brought us the inglorious phenomenon that is ‘Smooth...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2013
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Complete Recordings
The title Complete Recordings refers to the particular Messengers line-up that, for a mere six months, had Mobley, Silver and...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2018
Andrew Rathbun Quartet: Numbers & Letters
Andrew Rathbun | Bill Stewart | Jay Anderson | Phil Markowitz | Taylor Haskins
Canadian saxophonist Andrew Rathbun is now into double digits when it comes to bandleader credits. Previous projects have occasionally had...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2014
Getz/Gilberto: ‘76
There seems no end to the posthumous treasures emerging from San Francisco's long-deceased Keystone Korner. This booking was to celebrate...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2016
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