Kenny Burrell Septet: Blue Lights

Art Blakey | Ben Tucker | Bobby Timmons | Duke Jordan | Junior Cook | Kenny Burrell | Louis Smith | Sam Jones | Sir Roland Hanna | Tina Brooks

We wrote recently here about Burrell's current form. A veteran now and largely subsumed into jazz education, he can certainly...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

John Aram Quintet with Kenny Wheeler: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Suite

Andy Scherrer | Colin Vallon | Dave Whitford | John Aram | Kenny Wheeler | Norbert Pfammatter

In Geneva where he has been resident the past two decades, John Aram is a well-regarded jazz trombonist and composer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Benjamin Koppel/ Kenny Werner/ Scott Colley/Jack DeJohnette: The Art of the Quartet

Benjamin Koppel | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Werner | Scott Colley

One of the finest alto saxophonists in jazz, the pan-stylistic Benjamin Koppelhas, since the turn of the millennium, steadily risen...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

Kenny Garrett: Sounds from Ancestors

Corcoran Holt | Dwight Trible | Johnny Mercier | Kenny Garrett | Lenny White | Maurice Brown | Ronald Bruner | Rudy Bird | Vernell Brown, Jr.

This is the fifth album by Garrett on Mack Avenue and it's impressive in its lines of input, ranging from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Harold Land and Kenny Dorham: Complete Recordings – Eastward Ho!/Fire in the West

Amos Trice | Clarence Jones | Harold Land | Herb Geller | Joe Peters | Kenny Dorham | Lawrence Marable | Lou Levy | Ray Brown

Though they struck up a strong friendship around the time Land was with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown group, these two...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Five-Way Split: All The Way

Matt Home | Matyas Hofecker | Quentin Collins | Rob Barron | Vasilis Xenopoulos

Drummer Home hosted the rest of the group at his house for a lockdown play. They liked how they got...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023

Kenny Wheeler/Alan Skidmore: Swiss Radio Days–Jazz Live Trio Concert Series Vol. 28

Alan Skidmore | Kenny Wheeler | Klaus Koenig | Peter Frei | Peter Schmidlin | Pierre Favre | Skidmore | Wheeler

Sometimes something quintessential comes one's way as a reviewer. So what makes this so very, very good? Take two soloists...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012

Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in The Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco

Cedar Walton | Denis Charles | Kenny Dorham | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Sonny Red

For a trumpeter who was so often in the right place at the right time, there’s not nearly enough of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025

Adam Birnbaum: Three of a Mind

Adam Birnbaum | Al Foster | Doug Weiss

A graceful Kenny Barron-mentored young pianist in the classic post-bop mould is the sideman for luminary Miles drummer Al Foster,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Harvie S: Witchcraft

The Texan double-bassist is in polished, relaxed duo with the high pedigree post-bop pianist Kenny Barron here performing standards and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014