Stan Getz: Moments In Time

There seems no end to the posthumous treasures emerging from San Francisco's long-deceased Keystone Korner. This booking was to celebrate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2016

Stan Sulzmann/Nikki Iles: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles showed just how much lyrical imagination, restrained virtuosity and empathy they possess as a sax/...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2020

Album Interview: Cécile McLorin Salvant: The Window

Cécile McLorin Salvant | Melissa Aldana | Sullivan Fortner

A mix of studio and live tracks, the latter recorded at the Village Vanguard, the 17 songs of The Window,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Sidney Bechet: Essential Original Albums

Three CDs for under £10 looks a bargain, but the first is an amalgam of LP anthologies, and the latter...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Fletcher Henderson: Harlem Madness

Overlapping the (still available) 1989 Bluebird anthology Hocus Pocus, this offers an overview of Henderson from 1925-37, but some choices...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Yotam Silberstein: The Village

It's mostly the New York-based Israeli guitarist-composer's infectious latin influences that go into this recording, which features a high-quality band...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Mark Murphy: Four Classic Albums

Art Davis | Barry Galbraith | Bernie Glow | Bill Evans | Bill Holman | Blue Mitchell | Bobby Gibbons | Clark Terry | Conte Candoli | Ernie Royal Joe Wilder

Avid’s double-CD concentrates, first, on Murphy’s earliest work, with Decca’s Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go albums from 1956...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022

Michael Garrick Sextet: A New Serious Music

Art Themen | Coleridge Goode | Don Rendell | Henry Lowther | Ian Carr | Jeremy Robson | Jimmy Philip | John Smith | Michael Garrick | Norma Winstone

A game of two halves, with points of interest in both, but very unalike in production and atmosphere. The separate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2021

Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch Double Trio: Fun House

The French pianist-composer Benoît Delbecq is probably best known over here for his exciting, cutting-edge projects (Ambitronix, The Recyclers) with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Miguel Zenón Quartet: Música de Las Américas

Daniel Díaz | Hans Glawischnig | Henry Cole | Luis Perdomo | Miguel Zenón | Paoli Mejías | Victor Emmanuelli

Raised in Puerto Rico, schooled in jazz at Berklee, and mentored in his youth by influences as powerful as Danilo...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2022