Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound

Joe Sample

For his new CD, the veteran South Indian percussion maestro celebrates a triumvirate of jazz trumpet giants with the help...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Doubt: Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love

Doubt is British keyboardist Alex Maguire's New York power trio mixing prog-jazz organ grooves, math rock and metal riffs on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Brigitte Beraha and John Turville: Red Skies

John Turville | Bobby Wellins | Brigitte Beraha

Sometimes it's the quieter, more intimate albums that really lodge in the memory, and so it proves with Red Skies....

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2013

Peter Borthwick: This Moment

TV composer and jazz pianist Janette Mason is the director of this nonchalant Mel Tormé-influenced British crooner's debut. Songs range...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Boyd Lee Dunlop: The Lake Reflections

Boyd Lee Dunlop

The pianist made his debut trio album (Boyd's Blues) at age 85 and was featured in December 2011 in the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2013

Sal La Rocca: It Could be the End

A Belgian bassist-composer performs a set of warm post-bop originals in a quartet featuring the fine saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Gary Willis/Albert Bover/Gergo Borlai: Retro

Gary Willis | Gergo Borlai | Albert Bover

If the bass guitar-led solo album has been cursed since its emergence in the mid-1980s by the diminishing returns of...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: April/2013

Count Basie: Plays the Music of Benny Carter

Two Roulette albums in one with the K C Suite and Legend combined into a brilliant showcase for Carter's writing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2013

Ana Moura: Desfado

The fifth album from this new fado star has a set of compositions by contemporary Portuguese writers (and a Herbie...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

El Nino Machuca: Searching Your Youth

Pacho Machuca is a Seville-born guitarist with a good touch to go with his taste for joining up the languages...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013