Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Dave Whitford | Frank Basile | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Joe Bushkin: Live at the Embers 1952

This was pianist Bushkin's rival to the Jonah Jones quartet, with Buck Clayton in the solo trumpet role, and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2017

Sam Crowe Group: Synaesthesia

Adam Waldmann | Dave Smith | Jasper Høiby | Sam Crowe | Will Davies

Here's proof that the newest wave of UK jazz musicians don't need to play music that kicks arse in order...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

The Jihad: Black and Beautiful… Soul and Madness

Aireen Eternal | Bobby Lyle | Freddie Johnson | Gilbert Monk | Leonard Cathcart | LeRoi Jones | Russell Lyle | Yusef Iman

Amiri Baraka, who died in January, came to prominence in the early 1960s as a poet with links to the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014

James Spaulding: Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington

Avery Brooks | Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | James Spaulding | Mtume | Sam Jones | Steve Nelson

This was the Indianapolis-born Spaulding's debut album as a leader although he had already gained praise as a sideman with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013

Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios

Al McKibbon | Art Blakey | Ben Riley | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Dave Brubeck | Frankie Dunlop | Gary Mapp | Gene Ramey | Johnny Griffin

The EJC label is well named in this case, although the contents render redundant an earlier CD of Monk’s first...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Jared Gold: Reemergence

Billy Hart | Dave Stryker | Jared Gold | Jeremy Pelt

Jared Gold's annual releases on the Posi-Tone label established him as a technically advanced organist whose fluent lines and precision...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2018

Kevin Brady Electric Quartet: Plan B

Bill Carrothers | Dave Redmond | Kevin Brady | Seamus Blake

It was Larry Coryell, the 1970s fusion star and enduring guitar-jazz favourite – on an Irish studio session that turned...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2022

Miles Davis: Live in Poland 1983

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Darryl Jones | John Scofield | Miles Davis | Mino Cinelu | Robert Irving III

Of all the ensembles that Davis led following his comeback in 1981, his band with John Scofield is usually recognised...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

Houston Person: Live in Paris

Ben Paterson | Houston Person | Peter Bernstein | Willie Jones III

Person and company were in Paris for Festival Jazz a la Villette, their set recorded by France Musique and how...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022