Deborah Silver: The Gold Standards

Produced by pop Grammy Award-winner Steve Tyrell, the young Florida-based pop-jazz singer's interpretation of standards and the corny accompanying arrangements...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Ramón Valle: Take Off

Ernesto Simpson | Omar Rodriguez Calvo | Ramón Valle

There was outrage in some quarters when Leonard Cohen's ‘Hallelujah’ was chosen as the Christmas release for the X Factor...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2015

Harry Christelis & Pedro Velasco: Scribbling

Harry Christelis | Pedro Velasco

All credit to the Ubuntu label, which continues to support acts who may not grab headlines but who explore the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2022

The Nick Page Quintet: The Isle of Wight Suite

The old Colonel’s Isle of Wight neighbours are led by a well-thought-of guitarist-composer, Nick Page, who’s worked with Alan Skidmore...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

Tonbruket: Live Salvation

Andreas Werliin | Dan Berglund | Johan Lindstrom | Martin Hederos

The Swedish bassist Dan Berglund's Tonbruket's new ‘live’ album is recorded at Stuttgart's Bix Jazzclub and has a repertoire selected...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Ben Sidran: Swing State

Ben Sidran | Billy Peterson | Leo Sidran

Chicagoan Sidran (born 1943) is a kind of jazz omnivore: active as a writer (five books) and spokesman, songwriter and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022

Oscar Peterson Trio With Milt Jackson: Very Tall

Art Blakey | Cannonball Adderley | Ed Thigpen | Frank Foster | Horace Silver | Joe Newman | Milt Jackson | Oscar Peterson | Percy Heath | Quincy Jones

At one time or another Oscar Peterson threw his considerable (musical) might behind almost every jazz giant of note. Here...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2012

Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning

Using just kit and sampler, the Australian drummer Laurence Pike wraps his acoustic extemporisations in both understated looping grooves and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Modern Jazz Quartet 1960-1961:

Connie Kay | John Lewis | Milt Jackson | Percy Heath

More from the series of Paris concerts recorded by radio station Europe No.1, and probably never broadcast in full. Three...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016

Georgie Fame: Georgie Does His Thing With Strings

Chris Spedding | Georgie Fame | Jack Bruce

This summer Fame presented a masterclass to a Slovenian jazz workshop on the difference between the music industry and the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015