Fapy Lafertin: New Quartet

Alexandre Tripodi | Cédric Raymond | Fapy Lafertin | Renaud Dardenne

Manouche guitarist Lafertin came to fame in the 1980s with WASO, a touring group which broadly followed the gypsy jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Gregory Porter: Be Good

Aaron James | Chip Crawford | Emmanuel Harold | Gregory Porter | Kamau Kenyatta | Keyony Harrold | Tivon Pennicott | Yosuke Sato

Music industry clichés are kicked into touch here by what is not so much the difficult second album as the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2012

Finger Fusion Project

Andrea Cocilovo | Chad Wackerman | Eric Marienthal | Gabor Lesko | Jimmy Haslip | Mario Guarini | Oscar Trabucch | Simon Phillips

It shouldn't work: recorded at different times across different continents, stitched together like a duff Frankenstein, FFP explores a sound,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Laura Perlman: Precious Moments

Laura Perlman is a film editor turned jazz singer and she gives a pretty good account of herself on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Justin Kauflin: Dedication

Billy Williams | Christopher Smith | Etan Haziza | Justin Kauflin | Matt Stevens

Young Kauflin has attracted attention due to his association with his mentor, the late Clark Terry, documented in the film...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015

Roland Kirk: We Free Kings/Triple Threat

Art Davis | Carl Pruitt | Charlie Persip | Hank Jones | Henry Duncan | Jimmy Madison | Richard Wyands | Roland Kirk | Wendell Marshall

Hard on the heels of the recent Rhino/Atlantic compilation (Jazzwise 166) comes this public-domain reissue of Kirk's famous first Mercury...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Modest Trio: Mussorgsky Portrait/The Double

Pianists Steve Plews and Vladimir Miller pay tribute to two Russian giants – composer Mussorgsky and author Dostoevsky – with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2021

Mahobin: Live At Big Apple In Kobe

Copenhagen-based saxophonistcomposer Lotte Anker, pianist Satoko Fujii, real-time electronics wiz Ikue Mori and Gato Libre trumpeter Natsuki Tamura make up...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Curtis Amy: Groovin' Blue/Way Down/Tippin' On Through

Bob Whitlock | Bobby Hutcherson | Carmell Jones | Curtis Amy | Frank Butler | Frank Strazzeri | George Morrow | Jimmy Bond | John Houston | Lawrence Marable

Ever since I first acquired a vinyl of TheBlues Message back in the 1960s, I’ve had a warm affection for...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013

Al Di Meola: Across the Universe

Veteran jazz-rock giant Di Meola turns busker to express his love for The Beatles songbook with a discerning fusing of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020