DR Big Band featuring Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts: The Impaler

With compositions by Tain, Michael Brecker and Thad Jones, it's the drummer who ensures an explosively punctuated engine room for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Hanging Hearts: Into a Myth

The Chicago-based Chris Weller is a saxophonist in his city's gutsy tenor mould and his trio collective pumps out a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan

The Brooklyn-based drummer's quartet features a few top dogs on the experimental downtown scene in Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Timeline

In marking the 60th anniversary of their dad's momentous Cold War tour around the globe (the topic for a recent...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Quintet/Critics' Choice

Carl Perkins | Doug Watkins | Herbie Steward | Jimmy Rowles | Lee Katzman | Leroy Vinnegar | Mel Lewis | Pepper Adams | Stu Williamson

In contrast to the cool lyrical approach of Serge Chaloff, Gerry Mulligan and Lars Gullin, Detroit gigster Pepper Adams was...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2015

Sandra Nkake: Nothing for Granted

This soulful French-Cameroonian singersongwriter lands somewhere between Grace Jones and Nina Simone, and her English lyrics have a social conscience....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Steve Turre: The Bones of Art

Frank Lacy | Kenny Davis | Pedro Martinez | Peter Washington | Robin Eubanks | Steve Davis | Steve Turre | Willie Jones III | Xavier Davis

Here's a masterclass for trombonists everywhere. The album title means not only ‘we're artists of the trombone’, but is also...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

The Elliott Henshaw Band: Who’d Have Guest?

Andrew McKinney | Bob Mintzer | Bryan Corbett | Chris Aldridge | Chris Traves | Dave Weckl | Elliott Henshaw | Fiona Asbury | Gwilym Simcock | James Pusey

‘Being heavily influenced by the likes of Dave Grusin, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn,’ in-demand drummer and percussionist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton | Brandy | Casey Benjamin | Common | Derrick Hodge | Dwele | Emeli Sandé | Faith Evans | Glasper | Jill Scott

Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Ethel Ennis: Sings Lullabies For Losers/Change of Scenery/Have You Forgotten

Not the best known of 1950s singers, Ennis proves she was a fine ballad singer, especially with Hank Jones’ quartet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013