Gil Evans Orchestra: Plays The Music of Jimi Hendrix

Billy Harper | David Sanborn | Gil Evans | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | Ryo Kawasaki

This first Evans venture for a then-major label (RCA Victor) may have been intended by the producers as a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016

Betty Davis: The Columbia Years

Betty Davis | Joe Sample | Wilton Felder

Anybody with a passing interest in pop culture will know that ‘Miles’’ ex is really a wholly inadequate moniker for...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2016

Alex Cline's Flower Garden Orchestra: Oceans Of Vows

Alex Cline | Areni Agbabian | Brad Dutz | Brother Phap Hai | Brother Phap Khe | Chi Li | Duc Nguyen | G.E. Stinson | Jeff Gauthier | Maggie Parkins

Nels Cline's lightning-storm guitar soloing in one of America's finest rock bands, Wilco, has seen his renown eclipse that of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2017

Mark Murphy: Playing the Field/Rah/That's How I Love The Blues

It's heresy in some quarters to say so, but Murphy is really a dreadful singer, mannered and out of tune,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2014

Gerald Albright: G

The US saxophonist Albright, a leading practitioner of the so-called ‘smooth jazz’ phenomenon, continues to plummet the depths of its...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Keller's 10: Two

Béla Fleck | Chick Corea

The Swiss composer Beat Keller leads a contemporary third stream brassdominated 10-piece through original material....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Tom Rainey Obbligato: Untucked in Hannover

Tom Rainey

Rainey's acoustic quintet Obbligato's third album was taped at the back end of a European tour at Jazzclub Hannover. The...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Jim Black Trio: Somatic

Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan

One of the most imaginative drummers in New York, Seattle’s Jim Black has worked with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2012

Ravi Shankar: Nine Decades: Vol. I 1967-68

Alla Rakha | Kamala Chakravarty | Ravi Shankar | Temple priests

Nine Decades: Volume 1 is the inaugural CD release from the Ravi Shankar Foundation's archives. It comprises three tracks. Of...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2012

Al Jarreau: We Got By

Abe Laboriel | Al Jarreau | Joe Correro | Larry Carlton | Lynn Blessing | Paul Stallworth | Tom Canning | Wilton Felder

Released in 1975 and featuring string and horn arrangements by Dave Grusin, Al Jarreau's critically acclaimed and entirely self-penned debut...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015