Ahmad Jamal Trio: Complete Live At The Spotlite Club 1958

Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Vernel Fournier

One of the only things John Hammond and Miles Davis agreed on was that Jamal was marvellous. Forgive me if...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014

Kaja Draksler: In Otherness Oneself

Kaja Draksler

The main takeaway from Kaja Draksler’s In Otherness Oneself is that she made it because she can, rather than having...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022

The Warriors of The Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

Alfred Patterson | Bobby Zankel | Chad Taylor | Dave Ballou | Duane Eubanks | Graham Haynes | Hafez Modirzadeh | Jose Davila | Josh Evans | Julian Pressley

The late and much-missed pianist and AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) co-founder Muhal Richard Abrams inspired...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Various Artists: Walking To New Orleans

Alison Prestwood | George Benson | Greg Morrow | Kevin McKendree | Rob McNelley

A 4CD 100-track history of New Orleans jazz piano styles from Jelly Roll Morton and Dink Johnson to Eddie Bo...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2019

Giorgi Mikadze: Georgian Microjamz

Georgian Giorgi Mikadze is joined by influential guitarist David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski in a microtonal keys-guitar quartet that very effectively, as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Dave Brubeck Trio: Live From Vienna 1967

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello

Anger is not a word one normally associates with the late, great Dave Brubeck. But anger is most definitely on...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2022

Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods

Charles Mingus | Clem DeRosa | George Barrow | Jackson Wiley | John LaPorta | Rudy Nichols | Teo Macero | Thad Jones

The music on this disc emerged from the final sessions at which Mingus largely used conventionally notated music before moving...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Madeleine Peyroux: The Best of Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux

This 2CD compilation of the singer-songwriter's 18-year career features material stretching all the way back to her 1996 Atlantic debut,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015

Ralph Alessi Quartet: Quiver

Drew Gress | Gary Versace | Nasheet Waits | Ralph Alessi

The Californian, New York-based ex-Steve Coleman trumpeter Ralph Alessi releases his second quartet recording for ECM with a telling change...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Terje Rypdal

Arild Andersen | Barre Phillips | Bjornar Andresen | Bobo Stenson | Eckehard Fintl | Eric Niord Larsen | Inger Lise Rypdal | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Odd Ulleberg

Four re-issues that complement Rypdal's most recent release, Conspiracy (see Jazzwise 257). They comprise the first three recordings made for...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2020