Out To Dinner: Episodes Of Grace

Behn Gillace | Boris Kozlov | Patrick Cornelius | Rudy Royston | Ryan Keberle

The group name is obviously meant to imply a more filling repast than Dolphy’s famous Out To Lunch!, which of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2022

Ella Fitzgerald: With the Roy Eldridge Sextet live in Stockholm, 1957

Actually two JATP sets, one by Roy’s band, and the second by Ella, with Eldridge and Stuff Smith joining her...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

Francisco Pais Lotus Project: Verde

Connor Schultze | Ferenc Nemeth | Francisco Pais | Genetta Kha | Godwin Louis | Jacklyn Chan | Julian Shore | Myron Walden

We are forever being told not to judge a book by its cover (though not by publishing houses and their...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2016

Jan Lundgren: Potsdamer Platz

Dan Berglund | Jan Lundgren | Jukka Perko | Morten Lund

All the players on this disc are Scandinavian – saxophonist Jukka Perko hails from Finland, drummer Morten Lund is Danish,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Peter Zak: Standards

Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | Pat Senatore

A McCoy Tyner-influenced, New York-based pianist leads a mainstream trio that features straightahead stalwart drummer Billy Drummond and bassist Jay...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Charlie Parker: The Immortal Charlie Parker

Argonne Thornton | Bud Powell | Charlie Parker | Clyde Hart | Curley Russell | Dizzy Gillespie | Doc West | Duke Jordan | Jimmy Butts | John Lewis

No doubt we can expect a few Parker compilations in his centenary year, but this is a strange one. The...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2020

Kiefer: When There's Love Around

Andrew Randazzo | Andy McCauley | Blank For.ms | DJ Harrison | Jonathan Pinson | Josh Johnson | Kiefer Shackelford | Sam Wilkes | Simon Martinez | Will Logan

Pianist/producer Kiefer Shackelford, or just plain Kiefer to his many fans and followers, is a great example of what happens...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2021

Ray Charles: King Of Cool – The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

There's an argument that insists that as far back as the early 1950s, Ray Charles virtually invented soul music by...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014

Thumbscrew: Never Is Enough

Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

You know how it is. You pop into Woolies for a can opener and come out with zircon encrusted tweezers....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2021

Stephen Riley: Oleo

Adam Nussbaum | Jay Anderson | Joe Magnarelli | Stephen Riley

Danish label Steeplechase’s unerring commitment to acoustic post-bop has not waned over time. This release by tenor saxophonist Riley is...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2020