Kuzu: All Your Ghosts in One Corner

Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis leads an exhaustingly relentless free jazz sax-guitar trio set; performing live immediately pre-lockdown, the recording has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Moses Boyd: Dark Matter

Arnaud Gichaud | Artie Zaitz | Binker Golding | Chelsea Carmichael | Ife Ogunjobi | Joe Armon Jones | Klein | Michael Underwood | Moses Boyd | Nathaniel Cross

Moses Boyd has a knack for melding genres and for presenting his work in a way that makes it not...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Bob Holz: Holz-Stathis Collaborative

Ada Rovatti | Airto Moreira | Alex Acuna | Bob Holz | Brandon Fields | Darryl Jones | Dean Brown | Diane Moreira | Jamie Glaser | Jean Luc Ponty

This release climaxes with the tune ‘Lookin’ Back’ and that’s exactly what this amalgam of fusion energy and smooth jazz...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024

Paul Gonsalves/Clark Terry Quintet: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

Moonlighting from the Ellington band, CT, Gonsalves, plus Messrs Woode and Woodyard created this fine collection from 1956-58 that’s only...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Hadley Caliman: Projecting/Celebration

These two albums by this little-known West Coast tenorist are his finest work, of which the second, a quartet with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2016

The Ed Palermo Big Band: Oh No! Not Jazz!!

The New Jersey-born 18-piece bandleader takes on the might of Frank Zappa again with a fire in his belly but...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Eif Caglar: Misfit

A persuasive singer-songwriter from Turkey (with band featuring Eric Harland and Aaron Parks) with affiliations to 1970s jazz era Joni...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Sammy Price: Three Classic Albums Plus

Boogie and blues specialist Price led some fine sessions, the highlights here being his sextet’s collaboration with Sidney Bechet, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Eddie Gripper: Home

Eddie Gripper | Isaac Zuckerman | Ursula Harrison

The UK has produced some extraordinary jazz pianists of late: Deschanel Gordon (who has recorded with Tomorrow's New Quartet), Sultan...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2023