Will Vinson: Live at Smalls

Stacy Dillard | Kush Abadey | Josh Evans | Frank Lacy | Rashaan Carter | Theo Hill

Recently heard in London with US guitar star Kurt Rosenwinkel, Will Vinson is one of those unsung British heroes who...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2014

Dick Hyman Trio: You’re My Everything

Jazz standard interpretations by a textbook, mainstream swinger with varied career highlights including being Woody Allen’s musical right hand man....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Francesco Cataldo: Spaces

Erik Friedlander | Francesco Cataldo | Clarence Penn | David Binney | Salvatore Bonafede | Scott Colley

Francesco Cataldo was born in Sicily. He is a musician of great sensitivity and, as a prolific composer his work...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2013

Carol Saboya: Belezas: Music of Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento

Adolfo | Carol Saboya | Hendrik Meurkens | Dave Liebman | Spiewak | Jorge Helder | Rafael Barata

It had to happen eventually that someone would re-harmonise ‘Giant Steps’. The switch here is that, while retaining the melody,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

Nat King Cole: Canta en Espagnol

A concept-cum-world music collection from 1958-62, this features Cole dubbing Spanish lyrics over orchestras recorded in Cuba, Rio, Mexico City...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

John Martino’s Romantic Jazz Trio: The Michael in Jazz/The Beatles in Jazz 2

A mainstream latin swing-into-bop pianist explores the work of a pair of pop icons on two simultaneously released trio CDs...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Ravi Shankar: The Living Room Sessions Part 2

Tanmoy Bose | Barry Phillips | Ravi Shankar | Kenji Ota

This is the second volume to be culled from a four-day session recorded at Ravi Shankar’s living room in his...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: September/2013

Allan Browne Trio: Lost in the Stars

Combining ‘Zodiac Suites’ written by Mary Lou Williams and Karlheinz Stockhausen, UK pianist Bruno Heinen did the latter with music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Harold Danko Quintet: Oatts & Perry III

Well known as the piano sideman for original West coast luminaries Lee Konitz and Chet Baker, Danko sticks with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Ralph Alessi: Baida

Ralph Alessi | Nasheet Waits | Jason Moran | Drew Gress

On the back of a particularly fertile spell of activity including a recent duo recording with Fred Hersch, the San...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013