Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Fistfght at the Barn Dance

Andy Greenwood | Barnaby Dickinson | Barry Clements | Gareth Lockrane | Graeme Blevins | Henry Collins | Hugh Wilkinson | Ian Thomas | James Gardiner-Bateman | Jonny Mansfield

This is the first call London-based flute specialist and composer Gareth Lockrane's long awaited Big Band debut release on Michael...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Carsten Dahl Trio: Simplicity

A piano trio of two decades is a rare thing but Danish pianist Dahl's new record has all the advantages...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Wolff Parkinson White: Favours

Oddly but attractively packaged in a spongey red material, this CD has an undiluted yet overactive contemporary improv-electronica as backdrop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Zrazy: Dream On

A Dublin-based female vocal/piano duo in the lineage of such affecting jazzy singer-songwriters as Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Crawford and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Randi Tytingvåg: Three

Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke | Massimo Biolcati

The Norwegian vocalist Randi Tytingvag demonstrates a warm, attractive tone throughout her acoustic trio's set of mainly covers that have...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Ernie Watts: Chariots of Fire

This is the commercial side of Watts, presented with relentless bad taste on Quincy Jones's label, and showing none of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights

Benjamin Drazen | Carlo De Rosa | Eric McPherson | Jon Davis

Last year, there seemed to be a brilliant new Cuban pianist every month. Since then, there's been a flurry of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011

Ray Charles: True Genius

Al Grey | Albert McQueen | Andy Ennis | Ben Martin | Bennie Powell | Betty Carter | Budd Johnson | Chaka Kahn | Clark Terry | Cleo Laine

When Ray Charles left Atlantic Records in 1960 and set up his own label Tangerine in partnership with ABC Paramount,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2021

Cannonball Adderley: Them Dirty Blues

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Barry Harris | Bobby Timmons | Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | Louis Hayes | Nat Adderley | Paul Chambers | Percy Heath | Sam Jones

Being squeezed between Miles Davis and John Coltrane in the former's sextet for close on two years (1957-59) refined Cannonball's...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2018

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Spirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-76

Al Hibbler | Charles Crosby | Grady Tate | Hank Jones | Hilton Ruiz | Jaki Byard | Jimmy Hopps | Joe Habao Texidor | Lonnie Liston Smith | Major Holley

Compiled by our esteemed editor Jon Newey and Warner Music's Florence Halfon (she of the Leopard Lounge series), this is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2012