Jimmy Witherspoon: Spoon/Hey, Mrs. Jones!

Unlike Joe Williams, Spoon did not slide easily from blues to balladry, and these sides with large orchestras are a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2015

Lara Jones: Lara, A Piano At Night

Lara Jones

A live solo piano performance might surprise fans of Lara Jones and J Frisco, the contemporary post-jazz band she's most...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: May/2021

Steven Nichols: From Dust

Amund Kleppan | Charlie Rees | John Jones | Reuben Goldmark | Steven Nichols

You may not have heard of trumpeter Steven Nichols, but his pedigree speaks for itself: he has studied and performed...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

The Dave Liebman Group: Earth

Alex Ritz | Bobby Avey | Dave Liebman | Matt Vashlishan | Tony Marino

Best known as a bracing (and absorbing) post-Coltrane player (he was actually one of the first), Dave Liebman upturns expectations...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Dave Bass: NYC Sessions

A committed if over familiar kind of US straightahead quartet session led by Cincinnati pianist-composer Dave Bass but with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Dave Scott: Brooklyn Aura

The leftfield bassist John Hebert's throbbing lines are at the core of trumpeter-composer Dave Scott's enthralling quintet that also includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Sarah Vaughan & Quincy Jones: Misty

Misty brings together two superb Vaughan albums. The first, Vaughan and Violins, was recorded in Paris in 1958 with an...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017

David Murray Brad Jones Hamid Drake: Seriana Promethea

Brad Jones | David Murray | Hamid Drake

David Murray may have one of the greatest discographies in the recent history of black music, yet he continues to...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Dave Douglas and Uri Caine: Present Joys

Dave Douglas | Uri Caine

With his passing, it's hard not to hold Charlie Haden in mind when listening to this sublime collaboration. Haden and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2014

VEIN featuring Dave Liebman: Jazz Talks

Dave Liebman | Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenez | Thomas Lähns

The perspicacious, peripatetic Dave Liebman's CDs of his latest collaborations from around the globe land on your desk these days...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015