Marc Copland: Better By Far

Drew Gress | Joey Baron | Marc Copland | Ralph Alessi

Strange to recall that Copland made his professional debut as a saxophonist, but since concentrating on the piano since the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2017

Frank Morgan Allstars: Reflections

Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis

The mercurial Morgan, out of jail in 1988, goes head to head with Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016

Album Interview: Pulled by Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways

Neil Charles | Pete Wareham | Seb Rochford

Contemporary jazz is a spectrum and there are few musician-composers in the field that epitomise its openness more than the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

World Sanguine Report: Skeleton Blush

A top large ensemble led by jazz-wayward singer-songwriter/guitarist/arranger Andrew Plummer is the missing link between Zorn, Turnage, Satchmo, The Birthday...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Jack Teagarden: This is Teagarden! + Chicago And All That Jazz!

This is post-Armstrong All Stars Teagarden, and two high points in what was the evening of his career, firstly a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019

Sandro Zerafa: More Light

As well as a founder member of the Paris Jazz Underground Collective and long-time Malta Jazz Fest director, the guitarist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Sonny Rollins: Way Out West In Stereo

Ray Brown | Shelley Manne | Sonny Rollins

On the 60th anniversary of the first stereo issue of Way Out West on Lester Koenig's Contemporary label in 1957,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

This is the specialist soprano saxophonist-composer's very first trio album – a classical-folk influenced jazz improv set – out of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Allman Brothers Band: Brothers and Sisters 4CD Deluxe Collection

Superbly expanded set with two 1973 live CDs and a disc of outtakes and jams, the addition of pianist Chuck...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Adam Fairhall: Friendly Ghosts

Adam Fairhall

Fairhall's title conveys his affection for jazz piano's longest-gone spirits. This follow-up to his similarly themed, live group recording The...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2017