Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Ben Webster | Budd Johnson | Coleman Hawkins | Jimmy Jones | Jo Jones | Les Spann | Ray Brown | Roy Eldridge

With hindsight, not all of Leonard Feather's pronouncements have stood the test of time. However, when he wrote on the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Conrad Herwig: A Voice Through the Door

Conrad Herwig | Donald Edwards | Kenny Davis | Orrin Evans | Ralph Bowen

This is the kind of album that could easily be overlooked, yet, of its kind, it's as good as it...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2013

Freddie Hubbard: High Energy

Adrian Newton | Al Hall | Andy Newmark | Bob James | Buck Clark | Carl Burnett | Chris Parker | Chuck Rainey | Daniel Biro | David Spinozza

Freddie fusion is frankly a difficult proposition for a lot of jazz fans, and this three-album-on-two CD-set may make the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012

Omer Avital: Suite of the East

Avishai Cohen | Daniel Freedman | Joel Frahm | Omer Avital | Omer Klein

The sessions that comprise Suite of the East date back to 2006, following this band's month-long residency at Small's in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2012

Barry Guy/Peter Evans: Syllogistic Moments

Barry Guy | Peter Evans

One of the great elder statesmen of European improvised music, Guy has done some of his best work in orchestral...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

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