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

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

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

John Coltrane/Cannonball Adderley: John Coltrane & Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Tadd Dameron | Wynton Kelly

Strange retitlings and strange bedfellows in the bonus material of these two CDs, but also some fine music. The main...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Ella Fitzgerald: At The Opera House

One of the first lady of jazz's greatest live albums with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Jo Jones, plus extra...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010

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

Corrie Dick: Sun Swells

Alice Zawadzki | Corrie Dick | Dave Malkin | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Laura Jurd | Marianna Sangita | Matt Robinson | Rob Luft | Tom McCredie

Corrie Dick wears his prodigious rhythmic education lightly, having studied with Ghanaian master Sadiq Addy alongside mind-blowing times in Morocco,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Sonny Rollins: A Night At The Village Vanguard

Connie Kay | Donald Bailey | Elvin Jones | John Lewis | Milt Jackson | Percy Heath | Pete La Roca | Sonny Rollins | Wilbur Ware

At the risk of repeating myself (see the last edition of Jazzwise), here's another slice of vinyl opportunism from Jazz...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2019

Daniel Humair: Quatre Fois Trois

With a personnel line-up that surely can't fail to deliver including Dave Liebman, Marc Ducret, Joachim Kühn and Michel Portal,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Ballister: Worse for the Wear

Run for the hills: here comes Ballister featuring the established Chicagoan saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg Holm and Norwegian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015