Regina Carter: Ella: Accentuate The Positive

Alvester Garnett | Carla Cook | Chris Lightcap | Marvin Sewell | Miche Braden | Regina Carter | Xavier Davis

Featuring beautifully crafted arrangements of beguiling variety and sensuousness, in every lovingly caressed phrase of Ella: Accentuate The Positive, Regina...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2017

Dai Fujikura/Jan Bang: The Bowmaker

Arve Henrikson | Dai Fujikura | Eivind Aarset | Jan Bang | Kati Raitinen | Nils Petter Molvaer | Tamami Tono

Fujikura and Bang create sound worlds at once enigmatic yet strangely certain. ‘Nearly Invisible’, so appropriately titled, could be an...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Various Artists: The Songs of Jule Styne: There Goes That Song Again - His 27 finest 1926-1956

Bing Crosby | Cliff Edwards | Dean Martin | Dinah Shore | Dolly Mitchell | Doris Day | Frank Sinatra | Georgia Carroll | Gordon Macrae | Helen Forrest

London-born but US-based, Jule Styne (real name Julius Stein) rates his place among the great American songsmiths even if he...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2022

Major Surgery: The First Cut

Bruce Collcutt | Don Weller | Jimmy Roche | Tony Marsh

Originally a trio based around the Sarf London nexus of Croydon, Mitcham, Stockwell et al, the addition of Roche’s rock...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013

Hank Crawford: Mr. Blues

David Newman | Eric Gale | Hank Crawford | Paul Griffin

During a lengthy career, Hank Crawford probably recorded almost as many albums as his famous employer Ray Charles. The Memphis-born...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014

Jacques Loussier: Play Bach 1 & 2

These albums made Loussier's reputation as the French pianist who ‘swung’ Bach, and they remain some of his best playing,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2018

Julian Hesse: Troubleshooter

This Munich-based trumpeter-composer’s skeletal bass-drums trio probes the borders of free bop and rock music and although the ensemble dynamism...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Ethan Iverson Quartet/Tom Harrell: Common Practice

Ben Street | Eric McPherson | Ethan Iverson | Tom Harrell

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson notes that when he first came to New York from Wisconsin as an 18...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2019

Donny McCaslin: I Want More

Chris Bullock | Donny McCaslin | Jannek Zechner | Jason Lindner | Jody Redhage Ferber | Joyce Hammann | Lois Martin | Mark Guiliana | Sara Caswell | Tim Lefebvre

The hyphenated word ‘boundary-breaking’ is often thrown around so casually as a description of a band’s music these days that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2023

Chet Baker: Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker

These have quite possibly become the most recycled tracks in contemporary jazz. It would seem that every new public domain...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2016