Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria

Joey Baron | Kuhn | Steve Swallow

A surprisingly straightahead record for ECM, evoking not the clichéd idea of what constitues an ECM trio album but the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2012

Brian Ho: Organic

San José-born Hammond B3er's quartet (with guitarist Calvin Keys) includes a persuasive time-honoured hard bop treatment of Amy Winehouse's ‘Rehab’....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Eugene Delouche: Del's Jazz Beguine 1951-53

A 48-track collection of beguines and related Latin music from the French Caribbean, by the founder of the influential Ritmo...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Igor Butman Orchestra: Scheherazade's Tales

Alevtina Polyakova | Konstantin Safyanov | James Burton | Alexander Berenson | Nikolay Shevnin | Kathy Jenkins | Pavel Ovchinnikov | Eduard Zizak | Alexander Sakharov | Vitaly Solomonov

Igor Butman, a neo-bop tenor saxophonist who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to study at Berklee in 1983, had...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up

Sunny Murray | Jimmy Lyons | John Lindberg

Dividing lines between the so-called avant-garde and bebop were never set in stone and the very idea of a group...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2012

Threads Orchestra: Threads

Julian Gregory | Martin Couzin | Kit Downes | Kris Wright | Adam Robinson | Rus Pearson | Chris Montague

Formed in 2008 for a celebration that marked Liverpool as the European Capital of Culture, Threads Orchestra is led by...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

David Boswell: Windows

The soft-fusion Metheny-influenced LA session guitarist-composer drives a set that's feelgood but lightweight, and includes Yellowjackets' Jimmy Hanslip....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Ernie Watts Quartet: Oasis

Ernie Watts is a rare example of a busy session musician who learnt how to fit in without crushing the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2020

Andrew Swift: Swift Kick

Vanessa Perea | Michael Dease | Dwayne Burno | Jeb Patton | Eric Alexander | Tim Mayer | Michael Thomas | Wycliffe Gordon | John Lee | Curtis Stewart

Here's a very enterprising (and seemingly expensive) debut recording by an Australian drummer composer/arranger living in NYC who plays with...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2012

Andrew Lamb: Rhapsody In Black

Tom Abbs | Guillermo E. Brown | Michael Wimberley | Andrew Lamb

Andrew Lamb – aka the Black Lamb – has been active in New York for decades, but remains little known...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2012