Jan Lundgren: Potsdamer Platz

Dan Berglund | Jan Lundgren | Jukka Perko | Morten Lund

All the players on this disc are Scandinavian – saxophonist Jukka Perko hails from Finland, drummer Morten Lund is Danish,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017

Wynton Kelly Trio: Complete Vee Jay Studio Recordings

Jimmy Cobb | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Sam Jones | Wynton Kelly

References are often made to the characteristics of locations such as LA, Texas, Chicago or New Orleans when discussing the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013

Bob James: Feel Like Making LIVE!

Billy Kilson | Bob James | Michael Palazollo

Back in 2000, James’ reputation covered so many bases that he was the headliner at Jazz FM's 10th birthday party,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022

Bob James and David Sanborn: Quartette Humaine

Bob James | David Sanborn | James Genus | Steve Gadd

Recorded a week after Dave Brubeck’s death, Quartette Humaine is ostensibly a tribute to the late pianist. But it’s a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2013

Billy Pod: Quintessence

Mirko Scarcia | Rupert Cox | Tom Ollendorf | Vasileios Podaras AKA Billy Pod

In a somewhat career limiting move, Vasileios Podaras (Billy Pod to his London chums) rocked up in the UK just...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2023

Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox

Allan Harris | Jake Goldbas | Leon Boykins | Pascal Le Boeuf | Samuel Torres | Yotam Silberstein

A three-time winner of the New York Nightlife Award for ‘Outstanding Jazz Vocalist’, and named by Tony Bennett as ‘my...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Calviere-Hays-Le Fleming-Franchescini: Whole Lotta Love

Last year's Jazz Sabbath project, which saw keyboardist Adam Wakeman reinterpret Black Sabbath's monumental metal for jazz trio, was a...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

Wild Card: Organic Riot

Andrew Noble | B'loon | Clement Regert | Graeme Flowers | Jerome Harper | Joao Caetano | Lili Lonvheva | Natalie Williams | Roberto Manzin | Sophie Alloway

Wild Card and their amenable, danceable, brassy funk are driven largely by Regert's spicy guitar and held safe in Alloway's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015

Salvodelli Casarano Bardoscia: The Great Gig In The Sky

Boris Salvodelli | Dewa Budjana | Marco Bardoscia | Maurizio Nobili | Raffaele Casarano

Curiously, perhaps, Pink Floyd haven't spread their influence across the jazz world, although Sam Yahel's Jazz Side of the Moon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

Ray Charles: Zurich 1962

Bruno Carr | David Newman | Dickie Wells | Don Wilkerson | Edgar Willis | Elbert ‘Sonny’ Forriest | Hank Crawford | Henderson Chambers | John Hunt | Keg Johnson

Just three months after yet another raucous open air appearance at the annual jazz festival staged at Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Ray...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2017