Oltremare Quartet: Uncommon Nonsense
Andrea Di Biase | Antonio Zambrini | Jon Scott | Michael Chillingworth
This Italo-British quartet aims to bridge the divide between the rhythmic and harmonic sensibilities of British jazz giants such as...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012
Hampton Hawes: For Real!
Frank Butler | Hampton Hawes | Harold Land | Scott LaFaro
Creating headlines like ‘Junkie Jazzman Pardoned by President’, Hampton Hawes’ career was never short of controversy. Indeed, the pianist’s hyper-candid...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2024
John Scofield: Combo 66
Bill Stewart | Gerald Clayton | John Scofield | Vicente Archer
This set of all-new John Scofield originals celebrates the Grammygathering guitarist's 66th birthday – but if his senior citizenship inclines...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday
Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Multiquarium Big Band featuring Biréli Lagrène: Remembering Jaco
As modern-day bass behemoth Christian McBride once quipped: “There's bass before Jaco, and after Jaco…” and for many low-enders, getting...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/2020
Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan
As far as titles go, nothing could be more appropriate for a character as brilliant and turbulent as Charles Mingus....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Barney Kessel: The Contemporary Years – Selected Recordings 1953-57
Kessel’s Contemporary albums have often been reissued, what with an earlier series on Original Jazz Classics, and then a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby
Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick
They say never judge a book by its cover. But how about these albums? For starters, the Adderley-Evans summit is...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019
O'Higgins & Luft: Play Monk & Trane
Dave O'Higgins | Rob Luft | Rod Youngs | Scott Flanigan
Here's a frontline to savour, with edgesome youth and deep jazz experience, two musicians with a sense of the out-there...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Kurt Elling: Passion World
Clark Sommers | Gary Versace | John McLean | Kendrick Scott | Kurt Elling
Album number 11 from Kurt Elling sees the singer casting his stylistic net far and wide, its eclectic song list...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015
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