Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Begins

Billy Nichols | Chariie Saunders | Hubert Laws | Jerry Jemmott | Neal Rosengarden | Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Horace Ott | David Spinozza | Cornell Dupree | Gil Scott-Heron

Even casual observers will not have failed to notice the considerable amount of GSH material now available on CD. Yet...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013

Lisbeth Quartett: Constant Travellers

Led by saxophonist Charlotte Greve, this is a young German quartet firmly grounded in the pensively lyrical European post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Zurich

Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | Aruan Ortiz

The 59-minute Zurich concert last appeared on both Storyville and TCB (see Jazzwise 168), while the 19-minute bonus broadcast...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018

John Hollenbeck: Songs I like a Lot

A leading light on the lyrically forward-looking New York jazz scene, US drummer Hollenbeck arranges his fave songs (with vocalists...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Sam Newsome: The Art Of The Soprano Vol.1

Sam Newsome

Anyone who has followed Newsome's progress since his emergence in Leon Parker's group in the mid-1990s will know that he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013

Stéphane Galland: Lobi

Stéphane Galland | Tigran Hamasyan | Carles Benavent | Magic Malik | Misirli Ahmet | Petar Ralchev

This is proggy jazz-rock folk at first, with the drummer leader Galland sunny and earthy on the Benavent-penned opener ‘En...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: March/2013

Gregg August: Four By Six

Sam Newsome | Rudy Royston | Yosvany Terry | John Bailey | Luis Perdomo | EJ Strickland | JD Allen | Gregg August

Gregg August is a very interesting musician indeed. Classically trained, first principally on percussion, he went to Barcelona, then Paris,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2013

Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat: Sing Twice!

Da Romeo | Franck Agulhon | Thomas Bramerie | David Donatien | Julien Alour | Eric Legnini | Xavier Tribolet | Emi Meyer | Boris Pokora | Jerry Edwards

‘File Under: Jazz’, says the press release. But this new disc from Belgian keysman Eric Legnini, who first emerged...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013

Chris McNulty: The Song That Sings You Here

Marcus Gilmore | Ugonna Okegwo | Chris McNulty | Andrei Kondakov | Igor Butman | Paul Bollenback

On this, her sixth album, New York-based vocalist Chris McNulty invests every bar with real jazz phrasing and a moving...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2013

Oregon: Family Tree

Linley Marthe | Grégory Privat | Tilo Bertholo

Forty-odd years on from their inception, Oregon still sound remarkably fresh on this latest outing, one of the strongest sets...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017