Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love
Craig Taborn | Damion Reid | Matt Brewer | Steve Lehman
Over the past decade Lehman has proved himself a thrilling forward thinker, recording several albums that vividly capture Internet Age...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2019
Michael Leonhart Orchestra: The Normyn Suites
Michael Leonhart | Michael Leonhart Orchestra
The eponymous subject of this moving and powerful album is the bandleader Michael Leonhart’s 15-year-old mini dachshund, for whom the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2022
Miles Davis: Original Album Series
Included here is Davis' Parthian shot for a major label, the final five studio albums he made for the Warner...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016
Azar Lawrence: The Seeker
Azar Lawrence | Benito Gonzalez | Essiet Okon Essiet | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Nicholas Payton
Of all the post-Coltrane tenor saxophonists, arguably the most outstanding and least recognised must surely be Azar Lawrence. His youthful...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2014
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where The River Goes
Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel
With Rising Grace in 2016, the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel confirmed his stature on the world stage all the more...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
Ralph Alessi: It's Always Now
Bänz Oester | Florian Weber | Gerry Hemingway | Ralph Alessi
For over three decades, the American trumpeter Ralph Alessi has been a sought-after multi-stylistic virtuoso sideman, and in more recent...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2023
Jeon Lim Yang: Synchronicity
Jacob Sacks | Jeon Lim Yang | Mat Maneri | Randy Peterson
A repeated piano riff going in and out of time, the line slipping off centre, while drums and strings also...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2025
Milton Suggs with Michael King : Pure Intention
Pure Intention is Milton Suggs’ second vocal-piano duo album, the first being his 2010 album Just Like Me recorded with...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2024
Charlie Parker: The Complete Royal Roost Broadcasts
Were it not for dedicated night owls such as Dean Benedetti and Boris Rose then whole crucial swathes of jazz...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights
Released at the peak of the bossa-nova boom of the early 1960s, on the face of it this album might...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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