Ernie Watts Quartet: Wheel of Time

Christof Saenger | Ernie Watts | Heinrich Koebberling | Rudi Engel

Ernie Watts developed his mix of hard bop articulation, fusion aggression and technical mastery round about the same time as...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2016

Various Artists: Sky Music: A Tribute To Terje Rypdal

Bill Frisell | David Torn | Erik Friedlander | Even Helte Hermansen | Gard Nilssen | Hans Magnus Ryan | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Henry Kaiser | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Jim O'Rourke

Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal has been a major presence in Scandinavian music for over half a century, from his teenage...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2017

Dinah Washington: Sings Bessie Smith/Sings Fats Waller

Two fine Washington albums from her Verve days, the Smith one with the bonus tracks from the session also found...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2017

Ray Bryant Trio: Con Alma and Little Susie

Two essential albums from the bluesy pianist, with his 1960 chart hit the title track of the second....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Brötzmann/Satoh/Moriyama: Yatagarasu

Masahiko Satoh | Peter Brotzmann | Takeo Moriyama

When Peter Brötzmann helped launch European free-jazz back in the late- 1960s/early-70s, his close working relationship with Belgian pianist Fred...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2012

Howard Johnson and Gravity: Testimony

The veteran tuba legend's 10-piece tuba choir plus rhythm section is unexpectedly without an ultra-fat bottom end, of no surprise...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Teppo Mäkynen | Timo Lassy

Lassy and Mäkynen were key figures in the upsurge of Finnish jazz around 2005 that added to the notion of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Joe McPhee: Nation Time

Bruce Thompson | Dave Jones | Ernest Bostic | Herbie Lehman | Joe McPhee | Mike Kull | Otis Greene | Tyrone Crabb

“What time is it?” “Nation time!” From the incantatory call-and-response intro echoing poet Amiri Baraka’s impassioned, Afro-centric call to action,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019

Alex Sipiagin: Moments Captured

Alex Sipiagin | Alina Engibaryan | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | John Escreet | Matt Brewer | Will Vinson

We really are being blessed with some marvellous music on record this year and here is another brilliant CD from...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2017

Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Dianne Reeves | Fuller | John Patitucci | Mimi Jones | Rudy Royston | Shamie Royston | Shirazette Tinnin | Terri Lyne Carrington

Although her membership of Beyoncé's band is one of the prime talking points in the alto saxophonist's career, one could...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012