Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold And Silver

The Russian pianist-composer’s chamber jazz-ish take on verses from the book of Psalms (two CDs, with and without vocal) is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Various Artists: Jazz Trumpet: Four Classic Albums

Art Taylor | Booker Little | Cannonball Adderley | Charli Persip | Dick Wittington | Doug Watkins | Duke Jordan | Jimmy Bond | Jimmy Woods | Joe Gordon

On the face of things this latest Avid collection might seem a bit of a grab bag, united only by...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2019

Various Artists: Songlines Music Awards

Benda Bilili | Faiz Ali Faiz | Goran Bregovic | Juldeh Camara | Justin Adams | Lura | Oumou Sangare | Speed Caravan | Tinariwen | Titi Robin

The demise of the popular BBC World Music Awards left a big hole in a scene that has struggled long...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition: Album Album

David Murray | Howard Johnson | Jack DeJohnette | John Purcell | Rufus Reid

When Jack DeJohnette produced and recorded Album Album at New York's Power Station in June 1984, he created a classic....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud with In the Country: Trail Of Souls

Knut Reiersrud | Morten Qvenild | Pål Hausken | Roger Arntzen | Solveig Slettahjell

This album is a spin-off from the highly successful concert promoted by ACT's Siggi Loch in 2014 at the Berlin...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

Coleman Hawkins: Today And Now/Desafinado

Barry Galbraith | Coleman Hawkins | Eddie Locke | Howard Collins | Major Holley | Tommy Flanagan | Willie Rodriguez

Though from the start, they had John Coltrane on the books for the final six years of his short life,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2012

Anat Cohen: Quartetinho

Anat Cohen | James Shipp | Tal Mashiach | Vitor Gonçalves

With a shared love of the Brazilian songbook serving as its aesthetic lodestar, this hugely enjoyable album from Anat Cohen's...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023

Paolo Fresu: Vinodentro

Italian trumpeter, flugelhornist and much more besides Paolo Fresu isn't as well known in the English-speaking lands as he ought...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2014

Quercus

Huw Warren | Iain Ballamy | June Tabor

Often admired outside the world of folk music for her darkly penetrating, hypnotic vocal, June Tabor is also a gripping...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Duane Tatro: Jazz For Moderns

Bill Homan | Bob Envoldsen | Bob Gordon | Duane Tatro | Jimmy Giuffre | Joe Eger | Joe Maini | Lennie Niehaus | Ralph Pena | Shelly Manne

Searching for Tatro's name among the standard jazz reference books produces slim reward; his name is only mentioned once, in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019