Lola Albright: The Jazz Singer on the ‘Peter Gunn’ Series

A singing actress, rather than an acting singer, Albright handles standards reasonably well, and plays the role of jazz chanteuse...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Iskra 1903: South On The Northern

Barry Guy | Paul Rutherford | Philipp Wachsmann

Violinist Wachsmann recorded these two previously unissued London gigs on cassettes, but the quality is very high, capturing the acoustic...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2014

Lionel Loueke: Gaia

Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke | Massimo Biolcati

Since bursting onto the jazz scene in the noughties, the Beninois guitar prodigy has carved a niche as much as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Warren Wolf: Convergence

Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | John Scofield | Warren Wolf

The vibraphonist has some really heavyweight company for this, his third US album, including his boss from the Inside Straight...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: July/2016

Javon Jackson: Expression

Corcoran Holt | Javon Jackson | McLenty Hunter | Orrin Evans

For whatever reason, Javon Jackson has never really made the A lists of contemporary tenor players. Maybe it's his sound,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

According to the Sound: Prism-a-Ning

Adam King | Adam Parry-Davies | Chad Lefkowitz-Brown | Gary Alesbrook | Jake Goldbass | James Carter | James Morton | Mike Rodriguez | Otto Hashmi | Patrick Case

Hailing from Birmingham and Bristol respectively, the keyboardist Adam Parry-Davies and guitarist-programmer Patrick Case went through a long, rigorous process...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Richie Beirach: Leaving

Richie Beirach

Now aged 75, pianist Richie Beirach made an album with the same title in 1976, a duo set with reeds...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2023

Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Bertram Burkert | Franziska Aller | Johannes Arzberger | Konstantin Döben | Silvan Strauß

“Coming from a jazz background,” Berlin trumpeter Konstantin Döben reflects, “I had to work up the courage to write something...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2023

Gabriel Latchin Trio: Viewpoint

Gabriel Latchin | Jeremy Brown | Joe Farnsworth

Pianist Latchin has been around for a while now and remains one of our most consistently rewarding players. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

US4: My Scandinavian Blues (A Tribute to Horace Parlan)

Adam Nussbaum | Horace Parlan | Jimmi Roger Pedersen | Sinne Eeg | Thomas Clausen | Tomas Franck

This international venture, recorded in Denmark and filmed by a German company, celebrates the music of Horace Parlan. The colleague...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016