Steve Turre: Colors for the Masters

Cyro Baptista | Javon Jackson | Jimmy Cobb | Kenny Barron | Ron Carter | Steve Turre

Steve Turre says that this session is like a dream come true. He's been around for a long time now,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2016

Kenny Werner: The Melody

Ari Hoenig | Johannes Weidenmueller | Kenny Werner

Werner's virtuosity seemingly knows no bounds, especially in terms of rhythmic experimentation. That's hardly the right word, though, for he...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Frank Wess: Magic 201

Frank Wess | Kenny Barron | Rufus Reid | Russell Malone | Wynard Harper

Kansas City tenorman Frank Wess, who died last October at the grand old age of 91, was best known for...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums

Alfred Lion at Blue Note liked to record lots of material by his chosen artists in a short space of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Kenny Werner: Solo In Stuttgart

Kenny Werner

An absorbing set from Werner, which for this writer inevitably brings to mind an equally impressive but totally different solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019

Shawnn Monteiro: You Are There

Dave Zinno | Joe Farnsworth | John Allmark | Josh Bruneau | Kenny Barron | Mike Renzi | Nat Reeves | Shawnn Monteiro | Steve Davis | Steve Langone

Monteiro is the daughter of the late bassist Jimmy Woode, and dedicates this album to him. Father and daughter did...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Lee Konitz: Frescalalto

Kenny Barron | Kenny Washington | Lee Konitz | Peter Washington

Konitz, who will turn 90 next October, continues to plough a lonely furrow. Despite his occasional stylistic influence on such...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017

John Taylor/Norma Winstone/Kenny Wheeler: Azimuth

John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Norma Winstone

I’m sure it has been mentioned before, but this Luminessence series of classic ECM re-releases are actually better than the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

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