Curtis Stigers: Gentleman

Austin Beede | Curtis Stigers | David Piltch | Doug Yowell | Jody Ferber | John “Scrapper” Sneider | Larry Goldings

This follow-up to his fabulous 2017 live album with the Danish Radio Big Band, One More for the Road, finds...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Anne Mette Iversen: Round Trip

A Danish double bassist releases two albums that have a cool-toned contrapuntal, bop-ish understatement, though the first, Round Trip, is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Bo Stief | Buddy Tate | Doc Cheatham | Finn Ziegler | George Duvivier | Johnny Guarnieri | Oliver Jackson | Sven-Erik Nørregaard | Tate | Tete Montoliu

Both sessions date from a period when former Basie-ite Tate was often in Europe, playing clubs and festivals as a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2014

Brian Landrus: Red List

Brian Landrus | Corey King | Geoffrey Keezer | Jaleel Shaw | John Hadfield | Lonnie Plaxico | Nir Felder | Ron Blake | Rudy Royston | Ryan Keberle

Brian Landrus, the Brooklyn-based multi-reeds virtuoso, not only favours deep-register instruments like bass clarinets and bass flutes, but musical ventures...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022

Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

James Francies | Marcus Gilmore | Pat Metheny

Our received notions of Pat Metheny is that there is not one, but two Pat Methenys. There’s the Pat Metheny...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: a cosmic rhythm with each stroke

Vijay Iyer | Wadada Leo Smith

Their long-running musical relationship has been cemented by Iyer’s membership of Smith’s excellent Golden Quartet and now the two come...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Tommy Crane: We're All Improvisers Now

Charlotte Greve | Chris Speed | Jordan Brooks | Logan Richardson | Pietro Amato | Simon Angell | Tommy Crane

Drummer Tommy Crane moved to Montreal from a Sienna teaching sojourn days before lockdown. Creatively stocking up for the long...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2022

Clifford Brown & The Ladies Of Jazz: Sarah Vaughan/Helen Merrill/Dinah Washington

Barry Galbraith | Bobby Donaldson | Clark Terry | Clifford Brown | Danny Banks | Dinah Washingon | Ernie Wilkins | George Morrow | Harold Land | Helen Merrill

Though employing a trumpet to shadow a singer has long been a regular device only on a few notable occasions...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nothing if not prolific and following quickly on from last year's superlative solo Live In Marciac set this trio studio...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: April/2012

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The year 1958 was a big one for the Dave Brubeck Quartet. A tour of Europe was immediately followed by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023