Louis Sclavis Trio: Sources

Benjamin Moussay | Gilles Coronado | Louis Sclavis

This is Sclavis' ninth album for ECM and quite unlike any previous recordings. In an interview with France's Jazz Magazine...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

John Stubblefield: Bushman Song

Charnett Moffett | Geri Allenn | John Stubblefield | Mino Cinelu | Victor Lewis

Sad as it may be to think that not just the leader of this session, John Stubblefield – an underrated...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023

Manu Dibango: Past Present Future

Manu Dibango

A forward-in-all-directions effort from the masterly Manu Dibango, who at 78 is still committed to trying out new ideas, still...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2012

Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth

Avishai Cohen | Barak Mori | Yonathan Avishai | Ziv Ravitz

This haunting album is barely 37 minutes long, but since the trumpet-playing Avishai Cohen is a master of doing more...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022

Charlie Parker: Jumpin'

Anyone unfamiliar with Parker is going to be puzzled about all the fuss with these muddy, poorly recorded, airshots from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Adam Schroeder: Let's

Adam Schroeder | Anthony Wilson | Jeff Hamilton | John Clayton

In days gone by, swing bands had breakout small groups. Think the Benny Goodman Quartet, for instance. Well, this foursome...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2014

Joe McPhee & Raymond Boni: Live From The Magic City

Joe McPhee | Raymond Boni

Recorded six years apart, here's Joe McPhee in two radically different performance situations. With French saxophonist André Jaume he reinvents...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Chris Garrick and John Etheridge: WTWSFS

Chris Garrick | John Etheridge | Liane Carroll

You will hear hipper, more radical and certainly louder releases this year. But if you’re wise enough to buy this...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013

Mike Westbrook: Live 1972

Alan Jackson | Butch Potter | Gary Boyle | George Khan | Mike Westbrook

Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Connie Han: Iron Starlet

Bill Wysake | Connie Han | Ivan Taylor | Jeremy Pelt | Walter Smith III

Going by just appearance, you might mistake the 24-year old pianist Connie Han for a glamorous female classical crossover artist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020