Esteban Alvarez: Tico Groove

Building bridges between his Costa Rican folklore heritage, latin sounds and other folk-infused jazz from around the world, the Texas-based...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Various Artists: Down Beat Jazz Concert

This 1958 New York Town Hall concert has a great array of talent, occasionally given the chance to shine, amid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2012

Yoko Miwa Trio: Live at Scullers Jazz Club

Only the second female Japanese pianist after Toshiko Akiyoshi to teach in Boston’s Berklee, Yoko favours a very mainstream bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

The Eivind Aarset 4-tet: Phantasmagoria

Arve Henriksen | Audun Erlien | Eivind Aarset | Erland Dahlen | Jan Bang | John Derek Bishop | Wetle Holt

When Eivind Aarset debuted on Jazzland with Electronique Noir back in 1998, it was clear he was a guitarist with...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2021

Various Artists: Le Coq Records Presents the Jazz Allstars Vol 2

Alex Acüna | Andy James | Ben Williams | Bill Cunliffe | Bob Shephard | Chris Colangelo | Chris Potter | Jake Langley | John Beasley | John Patitucci

The LA-based Le Coq record label launched last year with a pool of established West Coast musicians. Its first release,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2022

Esperanza Spalding: Exposure

Esperanza Spalding | Justin Tyson | Lalah Hathaway | Matthew Stevens | Ray Angry | Robert Glasper | Starr Busby | Tivona Miller

Conceived as an experiment to kick-start creativity, Exposure is pleasingly free of novelty value. Written, performed, recorded and mixed in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2018

Iiro Rantala: My Working Class Hero

Iiro Rantala

It's not impossible to imagine that, half a century ago, some people's first exposure to the music of The Beatles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2015

Betamax Vs Clive Bell

Drummer Maxwell Hallett, AKA Betamax, also plays in Soccer96 and The Comet is Coming, and this side project is an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Jon Davis Trio: Beauty and the Blues

An experienced veteran pianist performs with a legato modernism in trio with Ed Howard and Tim Horner on a set...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Kari Ikonen Trio: Bright

Ara Yaralyan | Kari Ikonen | Markku Ounaskari

There is no doubt that some of the most interesting music emerging from the current European jazz scene is from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2013