Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums

Al Cohn | Art Blakey | Art Farmer | Ben Tucker | Bobby Timmons | Cecil Payne | Doug Watkins | Ed Thigpen | Elvin Jones | Hal McKusick

Originally inspired by Charlie Christian, Burrell, now in his 92nd year, must be counted as one of the jazz world's...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2023

Quadraceratops

Cath Roberts | Dave O'Brien | Henry Spencer | Jason Simpson | Magnus Dearness | Olly Blackman | Tom Ward

Take your eyes off the action on the young jazz scene for one moment and a whole load of new...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight

Arthur O’Hara | Ben Powling | Dave Morecroft | Kieran McLeod | Luke Reddin-Williams

WorldService Project's personnel have changed markedly since their first embattled Brexit response, Serve (2018), but the assaultive, defiant intent remains....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020

Snowpoet: Wait For Me

Alex Haines | Alice Zawadzki | Chris Hyson | Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Lauren Kinsella | Lloyd Haines | Matthew Robinson

The word Snowpoet, alone, steers the ear toward the intimate and abstracted landscapes of this album. The duo of Chris...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2021

Vula Viel: Good is Good

Bex Burch | Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | Jim Hart | Simon Roth | Stephen Bure

Learning hand-to-hand triplets on the djembe before studying classical percussion at the Guildhall, the Yorkshire-born Bex Burch had set off...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Charles Evans: On Beauty

A Baritone sax specialist joins his mentor Dave Liebman on soprano, their dense conversational narratives combining passionately in a suite...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Joe McPhee: Nation Time

Bruce Thompson | Dave Jones | Ernest Bostic | Herbie Lehman | Joe McPhee | Mike Kull | Otis Greene | Tyrone Crabb

“What time is it?” “Nation time!” From the incantatory call-and-response intro echoing poet Amiri Baraka’s impassioned, Afro-centric call to action,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

Orrin Evans: Liberation Blues

Bill Stewart | JD Allen | Joanna Pascale | Luques Curtis | Orrin Evans | Sean Jones

What a great CD with which to start a new year! Every Evans recording seems so fresh. Each of his...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

McCoy Tyner: Inception + Reaching Fourth

Art Davis | Elvin Jones | Henry Grimes | McCoy Tyner | Roy Haynes | Steve Davis

Although Inception and Reaching Fourth – both from 1962 – are usually cited as the first and second albums Tyner...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013

The Michael Treni Big Band: Boy's Night Out

Starring heralded Boston saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, this veteran trombonist's arrangements are in the mainstream post-Thad Jones tradition....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012