Mofaya!: Like One Long Dream

Aleksandar Skoric | Jaimie Branch | John Dikeman | Luke Stewart

Something of a new generation free-jazz super group, here, featuring leading younger players: Serbian drummer Skoric and American tenor man...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021

Duke Ellington: Concert In The Virgin Isles

The title's a misnomer as this was recorded before and after Duke's trip to the Caribbean, but the ‘Virgin Isles...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Oz Robù Trio: Oz Robù

Recording their debut for a London label, this young contemporary Italian piano trio favours coolly sensuous grooves in a latin/Mediterranean...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012

Zela Margossian Quintet: Transition

Adem Yilmaz | Alexander Inman-Hislop | Elsen Price | Metin Yilmaz | Stuart Vandegraaf | Zela Margossian

Zela Margossi's peripatetic career took her from Lebanon to Armenia to Australia, where she is now establishing her career in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Bria Skonberg: With a Twist

This mainstream Canadian pop-jazz singer/trumpeter is groomed for stardom or oblivion; her generic contemporary repertoire includes a pointlessly derivative big...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Sarah Vaughan: Live in Tokyo

Barry Harris | Leroy Williams | Sam Jones

Recorded at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, in September 1973, this twofer documents the inimitable Sarah Vaughan at the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2016

Sadao Watanabe: Open Road

Fumio Watanabe | Hiroshi Fukumura | Kohsuke Mine | Sadao Watanabe | Syunzoh Ohno | Takehiro Honda | Yoshio Suzuki

Around ten or 12 years ago, at the dawn of the 21st century, a whole rash of previously obscure, out-of-print...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2012

John Stein: Serendipity

Ed Lucie | John Stein | Mike Connors

Although a new name to me, Stein has already issued an array of albums, many on the Whaling City Sound...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hông Quang: Hà Nôi Duo

Alex Tran | Mieko Miyazaki | Ngô Hông Quang | Nguyên Lê | Paolo Fresu | Prabhu Edouard | Stéphane Edouard

I had the pleasure of interviewing Lê before a live audience at a jazz festival in Germany a few years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Peter Jensen & Morten Büchert & The DR Big Band: Light Through Leaves – Carl Nielson Recontextualized

As an unusual alternative to jazz interpretation of classical works, Peter Jensen, a frequent composer-arranger for the Danish DR Big...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021