Greg Lamy: Observe The Silence

This Luxembourgish guitarist serves up an innocuous yet agreeable brand of mellow fusion with his bass-drums trio, alongside special guest...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Troyk-estra: Album Interview: Live at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2013

Alex Bonney | Chris Montague | Courtney Brown | Imogen Hancock | James Allsopp | Joshua Blackmore | Kieran Stickle McLeod | Kit Downes | Louis Van Der Westhuizen | Mike Chillingworth

Originally commissioned by Jazzwise for its 15th anniversary festival at Ronnie Scott's in 2012, Troyk-estra sees the three members of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Johnny Mbizo Dyani: Rejoice/Together

Bosse Skoglund | Dudu Pukwana | Felix Perrera | Hassan Bah | Johnny Mbizo Dyani | Kenny Håkansson | Mongezi Feza | Okay Temiz | Peter ‘Shimmy’ Radise | Virimuje Willie Mbuende

Like his fellow Blue Notes, bassist Johnny Dyani left his native South Africa in the mid-1960s, in the aftermath of...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: October/2014

Barry Green Trio: Great News

Barry Green | Chris Cheek | Gerald Cleaver

Barry Green is a professor of jazz piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He's also the boss...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2015

Michael Brecker

Charlie Haden | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Kirkland | Michael Brecker | Pat Metheny

Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021

Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth

Angela Roberts | Burniss Earl Travis | Dana Hawkins | David Bryant | Fabiana Masili | Frank Locrasto | Frank LoCrasto | Jeffrey Haynes | Jeremy Pelt | Ra-Re Valverde

Jeremy Pelt's latest CD turns from the free-flowing exuberance of his highly-praised acoustic quintet to a loose-limbed keyboard-heavy jam featuring...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013

Annie Ross/Christopher Logue/Tony Kinsey Quintet: Loguerhythms – Songs From The Establishment

Annie Ross | Bill Le Sage | Blossom Dearie | Brian Brocklehurst | Christopher Logue | Gordon Beck | Johnny Scott | Ken Wray | Kenny Clarke | Kenny Napper

The rating here is specifically for those tracks that features La Ross hand-in-glove with Tony Kinsey's vibrant Quintet interpreting charts...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014

Mike LeDonne: Partners In Time

Christian McBride | Lewis Nash | Mike LeDonne

Despite having the least name recognition of this trio of performers, LeDonne is a veteran of the so-called modern mainstream,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019

Carmen McRae: Carmen for Cool Ones/Mad About The Man

The second of these includes a fine big band, but the first has dated badly with more saccharine strings. Mad...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Ben Webster: At The Renaissance 1960

A live set with Ben plus Jimmy Rowles, Jim Hall, Red Mitchell and Frank Butler, easing through ballads and standards,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2011