Fania All Stars: Latin–Soul–Rock

Billy Cobham | Jan Hammer | Jorge ‘Malo’ Santana | Lou Soloff | Manu Dibango | Mongo Santamaria | Ray Barretto | Victor Paz | Willie Colon

The audience for this event, held at the Yankee Stadium in New York, topped 40,000, and photographs in the liner...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024

Various Artists: Jazz – 10 Classic Albums

Billie Holiday | Charlie Mingus | Chet Baker | Count Basie | Dave Brubeck | Duke Ellington | Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Stan Getz | Thelonious Monk

Long long ago Tony Blackburn proudly revealed that he didn’t like jazz before adding that he was a huge fan...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Dewa Budjana: Surya Namaskar

Dewa Budjana | Gary Husband | Jimmy Johnson | Kang Iya | Kang Pupung | Mang Ayi | Michael Landau | Vinnie Colaiuta

Budjana is by all accounts a pop hero in his native Indonesia. But having just turned 50 life's starting all...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel

Bruno Montrone | Deelee Dube | Gaspar Bertoncelj | Greg Riddell | Jamie Campbell | Jeff Otto | Meghan Cassidy | Michael Demarco | Nicola Murescu | Renato D'Aiello

Berklee-trained Italian tenorman D'Aiello has been a London fixture since 1999 and is noted for his warm, emotional style. Here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015

The Necks: Mindset

Chris Abrahams | Lloyd Swanton | Tony Buck

More than 20 years and a couple of dozen albums into their musical journey together, Australian improvising trio, The Necks,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Cartoon: Change of Meaning

Chris Biscoe | John Pope | Roger Turner

Cartoon is a UK-based trio made up of the versatile multi-reeds veteran Chris Biscoe, an underappreciated player best known for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Alvin Queen Trio: Night Train to Copenhagen

Alvin Queen | Calle Brickman | Tobias Dall

Queen, born in the Bronx in 1950, moved to Geneva in Switzerland in 1979. He had worked in the US...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

David S.Ware/Planetary Unknown: Live At Jazzfestival Saalfelden

Cooper-Moore | David S. Ware | Muhammad Ali | William Parker

The received wisdom may be that the ‘energy’ of what is termed the avant-garde is found first and foremost in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012

Dominik Wania: Lonely Shadows

The pianist, a member of the Maciej Obara quartet, goes solo with a series of spontaneous improvs on his ECM...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Julia Werup: Dear Frances

Andreas Kleerup | Johnny Åman | Julia Werup | Matthias Petri | Niclas Campagnol | Svend Erik Lundeqvist | Thomas Blachman

An under-appreciated downside of the Covid pandemic and its associated lockdowns was the fact that a lot of albums got...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024