Amy’s everything: Amy Gadiaga: All Black Everything

Amy Gadiaga | Christ-Stéphane Boizi | Joseph Oti | Luke Bacchus | Simon Lamb | Tom Waters

All Black Everything has been an awfully long time coming, but it’s been well worth the wait. Singer, bassist, composer,...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2024

Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves

Bernardette Köbele | Elodie Théry | Marie-Florence Burki | Paula Hsu | Snejana Prodanova | Sofia de Falco

This bold and unusual debut recording features a string quartet and the pellucid voice of Marie-Florence Burki, who also wrote...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2024

Fergus McCreadie: Sketches

Fergus McCreadie

Everybody seems to love Fergus McCreadie, so this EP release of five new solo piano recordings will doubtless find a...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024

John Williamson: The Northern Sea

Alex Hitchcock | Alex Wilson | Immy Churchill | Jay Davis | John Williamson | Jonny Mansfield

Hell, if you’re a bass player, why not start your solo album with a bass solo? After all, contrary to...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns

Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Jakob Bro | Jason Moran | Lee Konitz | Thomas Morgan

It’s amazing to think that Lee Konitz, with his distinctively questioning, interior sound, played with Miles and Mulligan at the...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024

Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold

Avishai Cohen | Barak Mori | Yonathan Avishai | Ziv Ravitz

It takes guts for an artist to speak out against their own government, but Avishai Cohen, the Tel Aviv-based trumpeter,...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2024

Tony Lakatos: Home Tone

Axel Schlosser | Billy Drummond | Robert Hurst | Robi Botos | Tony Lakatos

Lavishly endorsed by Dave Liebman on the album jacket, Hungarian-born tenorist Tony Lakatos is hailed as a fine player of...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012

Count Basie: Basie on the Beatles

The original LP being quite short in duration, it has had several incarnations on CD, matched-up with another album, such...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra: Down A Rabbit Hole

The first recording for over a decade from Inserto, a Singapore-born US resident and protégé of the Bob Brookmeyer Jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Robert Glasper: Black Radio

Bilal | Casey Benjamin | Chris Dave | Derrick Hodge | Erykah Badu | Lalah Hathaway | Ledisi | Lupe Fiasco | Meshell Ndegeocello | Mos Def

This is not a jazz album as such. Debate over whether it even belongs in these pages may well consume...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012