Terri Lyne Carrington: Mosaic Project: Love and Soul

Geri Allen | Ingrid Jensen | Meshell Ndegeocello | Patrice Rushen | Rachel Z | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tia Fuller

Terri Lyne Carrington's current purple patch is one of the most gratifying things to have happened in jazz in recent...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2015

Weichplast: Rattenplage Wegen Magahitze

This Leipzig-Zurich sax-bass-drums trio are not for the faint-hearted; claiming to be ‘treading the abyss between Kafka and Coltrane, Brötzmann...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

The Eleventh House featuring Larry Coryell: Level One

Alphonse Mouzon | John Lee | Larry Coryell | Michael Lawrence | Mike Mandel | Steve Khan

The world without Larry Coryell is a lesser, if considerably quieter, place. Not, of course, that Coryell was all rock...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2018

Buddy Rich: Birdland

Alan Gauvin | Barry Keiner | Bobby Mintzer | Buddy Rich | Dale Kirkland | Dave Stahl | David Boyle | Dean Pratt | Jon Burr | Jon Marshal

What we have here is the old shedbuilder's mid-1970s aggregation privately recorded on location by sax man Alan Gauvin. It's...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015

Allman Brothers Band: Fillmore West 1971

Berry Oakley | Butch Trucks | Dickey Betts | Duane Allman | Greg Allman | Jaimoe Johanson

Perched loftily at No. 2 in Rolling Stone magazine's 50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time (No. 1 is James...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2019

Forrest Westbrook: The Remarkable Forrest Westbrook: His Trio and Quartet

Remarkable is the word, as Fresh Sound brings back yet another artist from obscurity, in this case a dazzlingly inventive...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2016

Nina Pedersen: Time is a Restless Thief

This Norwegian Rome-based singer-songwriter has a commandingly expressive and uncannily retro 1960s vocal, not so much a jazz-rooted singer as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Oscar Peterson: Nameless

Another 3CD Jazz Characters set, this is a bird's eye view of Oscar's career from early duos through the trios...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Don Weller’s Major Surgery: Major Surgery: Rare Live Performances 1978

Don Weller

Don Weller, the titanic Sonny Rollins and Coltrane-inspired tenor saxophonist whose guest appearances with Gil Evans' UK touring groups have...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020

Teddy Edwards: Love Moods/Good Gravy

The pugnacious Californian tenorist with his quartet on the latter album, and backing singer Helyne Stewart on the former, but...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2013