Don Cherry: Mu/Orient

Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Han Bennink | Johnny Dyani | Moki Cherry | Okay Temiz

This double CD, featuring new liner notes by journalist John Masouri, includes Orient, a record Cherry made with two different...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out Stereo and Mono Versions

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The recent release of Atlantic box-set John Coltrane Mono was a significant response to the many listeners who now feel...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2016

Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within

Tigran Hamasyan

On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Jason Miles: To Grover, With Love/Live In Japan

Andy Snitzer | Buddy Williams | Eric Darius | Gerald Veasley | Jason Miles | Nicky Moroch | Ralph MacDonald | Ryan Shaw

Many people were touched by the sound of saxophonist Grover Washington Jr, and none more so than keyboardist/producer Jason Miles....

Reviewed by George Cole in issue: May/2016

Count Basie: In London

This has a few extra bonuses along with the original 16 tracks reissued recently by Fresh Sound, making this the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Edward Simon with Afi nidad & Imani Winds: Sorrows & Triumphs

Adam Rogers | Brian Blade | David Binney | Edward Simon | Gretchen Parlato | Jeff Scott | Luis Quintero | Mark Dover | Monica Ellis | Rogerio Boccato

Venezuela-born, US-based pianist-composer Edward Simon is, according to JazzTimes, “less talked about than many other important jazz pianists from the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Al Di Meola: Land of the Midnight Sun

Al Di Meola | Alphonse Mouzon | Anthony Jackson | Barry Miles | Chick Corea | Jaco Pastorius | James ‘Mingo’ Lewis | Lenny White | Patty Buyukas | Stanley Clarke

Still barely 21, this was Di Meola's much-anticipated first solo outing. As a teen he'd seemingly come from nowhere to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014

Andrew Hartman: Compass

This NYC-based Cincinnati guitarist pledges allegiance to the Rosenwinkel/Metheny school of lyrical contemporary cool without really adding much of his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Ernest Dawkins: Afro Straight

A new CD from veteran AACM saxophonist Dawkins' new group on the reliable Chicago Delmark label is unexpectedly on a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Hot Lips Page: Feelin’ High & Happy 1928-1953

Albert Ammons | Albert Nicholas | Artie Shaw | Ben Webster | Bennie Moten | Billie Holiday | Chu Berry | Count Basie | Don Byas | Earl Bostic

Bobby Hackett is quoted in the liner notes, saying that in the mid-1930s the up-and-coming Page was signed to an...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2022