JFK Quartet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington/Young Ideas

1961 hard bop, Messengers-style by a fairly unknown band of young Washingtonians, this ranks as a good complement to any...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2013

Dave Newman: Fathead Comes On

Fathead Newman breaks out from the Ray Charles straightjacket playing fl ute and alto as well as tenor, with Marcus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014

George Cables: My Muse

The Ex-Messenger sideman's stints with Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard and Art Pepper are among his career highlights and here he...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Eivind Opsvik | Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing

Drum-led piano trios are always a bit different. There's a unique gravitational pull to the best ones, and that's nothing...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Jazzmeia Horn: A Social Call

Ben Williams | Frank Lacy | Jazzmeia Horn | Jerome Jennings | Josh Evans | Stacy Dillard | Victor Gould

The Dallas-born, New York City-based vocalist Jazzmeia Horn was my one to watch for in the December 2015/January 2016 issue...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2017

Ketil Bjørnstad: Sunrise

Aage Kvalbein | Bjørn Kjellemyr | Egil Fossum | Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen | Kari Bremmnes | Ketil Bjørnstad | Matias Bjørnstadt

Sunrise is subtitled A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch, and was originally commissioned by the Nordstrand Musikkselskap Choir for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014

Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt: Music For Chamber Orchestra and Small Ensemble

Adam Matlock | Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Josh Modney | Robert Landfermann | Sam Pluta | Susanne Blumenthal | Tom Rainey | Zeena Parkins

Ingrid Laubrock, the German-born, New York-based saxophonist and composer, set out a new marker for the lively relationship between contemporary...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021

Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook Vol.1

Alan Weekes | Byron Wallen | Carl Robinson | Cleveland Watkiss | Delroy Murray | James Wade-Sired | Orphy Robinson | Phil Ramocon

One of our greatest jazz singers has never denied his reggae origins, and this celebration of killer roots and lovers'...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022

Mike Taylor: Mandala

Dave Tomlin | Jon Hiseman | Mike Taylor | Tony Reeves

The introductory compilation album of Decca's new 1960s/70s British Jazz Explosion reissue series includes a track from the restless and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021

Helen Merrill: With Clifford Brown/Helen Merrill with Strings

Merrill's 1954 session with Clifford Brown is rightly regarded as a high point in both artists' careers and these seven...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2017