Album Interview: Jeff Ballard: Fairgrounds

Chris Cheek | Jeff Ballard | Kevin Hays | Lionel Loueke | Mark Turner | Pete Rende | Reid Anderson

Jeff Ballad has a curriculum vitae as long as your arm, touring and recording with a host of notable names...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Roy Eldridge/Ella Fitzgerald: In Concert

Ella Fitzgerald | Gus Johnson | Herb Ellis | Lou Levy | Roy Eldridge | Wilfred Middlebrooks

In between Jazz at the Philharmonic dates in early 1959, Norman Granz sent out a slimmed-down package of Ella Fitzgerald...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023

Bernie Worrell: Elevation: The Upper Air-Solo Piano

Bernie Worrell

As all British schoolchildren, past and present, know, Dr Who regenerates every few years and steps out of his Tardis...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2014

VEIN: The Chamber Music Effect

Florian Arbenz | Michael Arbenz | Thomas Lähns

Swiss trio VEIN are masters of musical interplay. Over the course of the last decade they've developed fruitful collaborations with...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2017

Benny Goodman: The Sound Of Music

Dave Green | Henry Lowther | Jim Mullen | Stu Butterfield

Goodman plays songs from the movie with mixed results, but at their best, Fred Karlin's arrangements provide sound jazz fodder...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010

Uri Caine Ensemble: George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue

Barbara Walker | Chris Speed | Jim Black | Joyce Hammann | Mark Helias | Ralph Alessi | Theo Bleckmann | Uri Caine

Definitely an album of two halves, this begins with a 22½ minute sextet adaptation of the Gershwin opus. This is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

The Kandinsky Effect: Synesthesia

This Paris-based power trio, led by the American saxophonist Warren Walker, sounds like a rocking-out version of now defunct punk-jazzers...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Martin Archer: Story Tellers

Anton Hunter | Corey Mwamba | Kim Macari | Martin Archer | Mick Somerset | Peter Fairclough | Stone-Lonergan

Yorkshire-born composer and musician Martin Archer made his name as a saxophonist on the UK free improv scene of the...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2016

Huntsville: Pond

Ingar Zach | Ivar Grydeland | Tonny Kluften

Over the last decade or so, Norwegian trio, Huntsville, have forged a unique musical language that draws deeply from several...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Light That Shines

James Davison

Gatherings of any scale having been outlawed these past months, you might have thought big bands had been banned. But,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2020