Peter Appleyard: Sophisticated Ladies

A bevy of Canadian jazz singers head a sprightly 84-year-old ex-Benny Goodman vibes legend's standards quintet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980)

Bill Evans

There's a huge amount of good music here, as indeed there should be from a compilation covering a quarter-century. A...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2021

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Evan Jenkins | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

As with another widely admired piano trio, The Necks, Neil Cowley Trio tends to get coverage in the jazz media...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

John Scofield: Swallow Tales

Bill Stewart | John Scofield | Steve Swallow

John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Joe O'Connor/Theo Carbo/Tim Green: Eclogue

Joe O'Connor | Theo Carbo | Tim Green

Perhaps it has something to do with the huge, empty skies and landscapes of the Australian outback, but the music...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2021

Sara Serpa ' Ran Blake: Kitano Noir

Vocalist Sara Serpa and trumpeter Ran Blake combine inventively with their sparse renditions of mostly originals and some standards....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015

Werner/Loueke/Zenón/Koppel/Nemeth: Coalition

Benjamin Koppel | Ferenc Nemeth | Kenny Werner | Lionel Loueke | Miguel Zenón

This is an interesting record. But then Kenny Werner always makes interesting records. This is his eighth for the Half...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

Miles Davis: The Lost Concert

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Chick Corea | Dave Holl | Deron Jackson | Jackie McLean | Joe “Foley” McCreary | Joe Zawinul | John McLaughlin | John Scofield

Davis studiously avoided revisiting his distinguished past until the final year of his life. But on 8 July, 1991, amid...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Ivan Lins/SWR Big Band: Cornucopia

A Brazilian theme for this lively affair featuring Rio's grammy-winning vocal and songwriter icon, heading up a high profile Stuttgart...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Steve Lacy and Don Cherry: Evidence

Billy Higgins | Buell Neidlinger | Carl Brown | Dennis Charles | Don Cherry | Steve Lacy | Wynton Kelly

Great to have this seminal Lacy album available again, especially as it's paired with his Soprano Sax album with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012