Ethan Iverson: Every Note Is True

Ethan Iverson | Jack DeJohnette | Larry Grenadier

It wasn’t just Boris Johnson at the COP 26 climate conference reawakening memories of Kermit the Frog. Iverson does a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2022

Steph Richards: Take The Neon Lights

Andrew Munsey | James Carney | Sam Minaie | Steph Richards

Steph Richards is a young Brooklyn-based, Canadian trumpeter-composer whose already found her niche working under titans of experimental music such...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Bill O’Connell: A Change Is Gonna Come

Bill O’Connell | Craig Handy | Lincoln Goines | Pedrito Martinez | Steve Jordan

Prior to this, I knew nothing of O’Connell but Wikipedia tells me that he’s principally associated with Latin jazz and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2022

Alan Broadbent: Broadbent Plays Brubeck

Alan Broadbent | Hans Dekker | Harvie Swartz | London Metropolitan Strings

New Zealander Alan Broadbent moved to the USA to study at Berklee College of Music and on graduating became an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

E.J. Strickland Quintet: The Undying Spirit

E.J. Strickland | Jaleel Shaw | Linda Oh | Luis Perdomo | Marcus Strickland

Strickland's disciplined and funky quintet get down to business right from the off. ‘The Ride’ introduces a slow burn vamp...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2015

Ella Fitzgerald: Live At The Concertgebouw 1961

Ella Fitzgerald | Gus Johnson | Herb Ellis | Lou Levy | Wilfred Middlebrooks

Following on from releases by Sarah Vaughan, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck, Live At The Concertgebouw continues Fondamenta’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Flashmob: Generals

Nick Smalley | Rory Simmons | Ryan Williams | Will Collier

Electric guitarist Ryan Williams’ four-piece Flashmob were formed in 2007. On the band’s debut Generals on the F-IRE label, Williams...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011

John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions

Art Pepper | Bill Perkins | Bob Enevoldsen | Buddy Clark | Buddy Collette | Conte Candoli | Don Bagley | Hampton Hawes | Herb Geller | Jack Montrose

It's said that the French horn is frequently used in orchestral music to both soothe or lift the spirits –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2017

Tom Ford: The Return of the Tennis Champions

Adam Flowers | Andy Bunting | Charles Haynes | Daniel Winshall | David Hodek | Davide Shorty | Jonny ‘Itch’ Fox | Keyon Harrold | Liselotte Östblom | Parthenope

Guitarist and producer Tom Ford is a familiar figure in session work around the UK and US, popping up in...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: February/2023

Paul Bley: Four Classic Albums

This covers the first major steps of Bley's multi-faceted career and, despite deriving from four different labels, the sound is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020