Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere

Keith Jarrett | Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette

The first ‘Standards Trio’ issue for some years, this catches the band on excellent form in Lucerne, spanning a broad...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Pat Metheny: Tap: John Zorn's Book Of Angels Vol 20

Antonio Sánchez | Pat Metheny

Zorn's epic cycle of 500 songs, the Masada Book, has been interpreted variously by the likes of Marc Ribot, the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2013

Tommy Flanagan/Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2: Live At Keystone Korner

Tommy Flanagan | Jaki Byard

Todd Barkan, the former owner of Keystone Korner (Jazzwise 162 and 166), recently ended his association with Jazz At Lincoln...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2013

Monty Alexander: Uplift2

Frits Landesbergen | Monty Alexander | Jeff Hamilton | Hassan Shakur | John Clayton

Producer John Lee creates an unnecessary element of mystery by airily describing these tracks as “recorded at various concert...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013

Ella Fitzgerald: Sings Ballads for Lovers

A well produced and edited compilation of Ella's singing from her great period in the 1950s and 60s, with a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

Album Interview: Gwyneth Herbert: The Sea Cabinet

Gwyneth Herbert | Sam Burgess | Fiona Bevan | Al Cherry

Album number six from Gwyn Herbert is so chock full of delights that you're reaching for the repeat button even...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2013

Bill McHenry: La Peur Du Vide

A consummate New York-based tenor saxophonist on a contemporary progressive hard bop session live at the Village Vanguard with Orrin...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Michael Rodriguez: Reverence

Gerald Clayton | Kiyoshi Kitagawa | Michael Rodriguez | Chris Cheek | Rodney Green

One of the best releases in 2007 was Conversations on Savant by the Cuban-blooded but America-reared Rodriguez Brothers – trumpeter...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013

Miles Davis: Four Classic Albums

At one level, not much needs to be said. When three of the four albums are Miles Ahead, Porgy And...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Eric Alexander: Touching

Joe Farnsworth | Eric Alexander | John Webber | Harold Mabern

Sometimes a critic should declare bias, as in the case of Eric Alexander, who for me can do no wrong....

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013