Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows

Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Dan Coleman | Joshua Redman | Larry Grenadier | Mehldau | Patrick Zimmerli

The presence of the 12-piece chamber orchestra makes the term ‘jazz strings’ appropriate, but the real story, at least from...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2013

Simians of Swing

Andy Davies | Ant Law | Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Ivo Neame | Luca Boscagin | Polly Gibbons | Saleem Raman | Sam Leak

For those who frequent Ronnie Scott's upstairs jams on a Wednesday, the trumpeter Andy Davies will be a familiar face....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris Jazzwi in issue: October/2015

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons

Ches Smith | Esperanza Spalding | JD Allen | Kris Davis | Marc Ribot | Nels Cline | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tony Malaby | Trevor Dunn | Val Jeanty

Pianist-composer Kris Davis can be found among a small coterie of contemporary New York underground scene experimentalists, including Ingrid Laubrock,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Seldom do recordings of previously unissued material from the past demand jazz history be re-written. Live in Europe 1969 Vol....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2013

NES: Ahlam

Hailing from Valencia, NES is an unusual bare-boned vocal-cello-percussion trio headed by French-Algerian singer Nesrine Belmokh who boasts a commanding...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Joe Williams: That Kind of Woman/Sentlmental And Melancholy

This is MOR Williams, a million miles away from the authoritative jazz singer on the following disc with Edison, in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2016

Kyle Eastwood: Candid Kyle

Andrew McCormack | Dave O'Higgins | Graeme Blevins | Graeme Flowers | Kyle Eastwood | Martyn Kaine

‘Go whistle!’ Kyle Eastwood (perhaps) told his dad, legendary film actor and director Clint, before going into the studio to...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2017

George Shearing: Four Classic Albums Plus

This puts the Shearing sound together with Nat Cole, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson and Dakota Staton, (plus Teddy King and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Actis Dato: Earth Is The Place

Beppe Di Filippo | Carlo Actis Dato | Daniele Bertone | Matteo Ravizza

Although little known in Britain, Dato makes music of absolutely joyous abandon which would get the most leaden-footed of punters...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015

Dave Grusin: Kaleidoscope

Chris Beck | Cyrus Chestnut | Eric Wheeler

Grusin himself felt this session had a nightclub feel, and he's right, it's very unlike his more ‘studio’ session, so...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019