Karim Saber: Transmission
Alex Wilson | Jack Thomas | John Jones | Karim Saber | Matt Cook
It was Phronesis founder Jasper Høiby who first brought rising guitarist and composer Karim Saber to the attention of Ubuntu...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2024
Joey DeFrancesco + The People: Project Freedom
Dan Wilson | Jason Brown | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Troy Roberts
We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2017
Joey DeFrancesco: Trip Mode
Dan Wilson | Jason Brown | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco
DeFrancesco can play the organ as well as anybody – he has the discography, the awards and the full calendar...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: February/2016
Claire Martin: Too Much in Love to Care (Claire Martin Sings with Kenny Barron)
Claire Martin | Kenny Barron | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington | Steve Wilson
Claire Martin's fifteenth album for Linn, her first US studio recording since Make This City Ours (1997), marks the first...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012
Ken Peplowski: Enrapture
Ehud Asherie | Ken Peplowski | Martin Wind | Matt Wilson
Peplowski is the premier mainstream/modern clarinetist de nos jours, a peerless improviser and technician, good at fronting a big band...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2016
Various Artists: Introducing M-Base
Cassandra Wilson | Gary Thomas | Geri Allen | Greg Osby | Jean-Paul Bourelly | Steve Coleman
The sub-title of this compilation, Brooklyn In The 1980s, is not insignificant. For while the term M-Base has become a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015
Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Seasoned jazz listeners will undoubtedly be familiar with Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's historic encounter at New York's Five Spot...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: September/2023
Christian McBride and Inside Straight: People Music
Christian McBride's straight-ahead project might not break any boundaries but, like the leader's propulsive bass playing, it certainly packs a...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013
Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet
Art Tatum | Ben Webster | Bill Douglass | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Red Callendar | Teddy Wilson
The core of this elegantly packaged release is the seven-track album cut by Tatum and Webster in 1956, and which...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019
Renee Rosnes: Written In The Rocks
Bill Stewart | Peter Washington | Renee Rosnes | Steve Nelson | Steve Wilson
It’s 30 years already since Canadian-born Rosnes descended on the New York scene, making an immediate impact with, among others,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016
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