Angélique Kidjo: Spirit Rising

Christian McBride | Thierry Vaton | Magatte Sow | Marvin Sewell | Dominic James | Angélique Kidjo | Daniel Freedman

Featuring a selection of Kidjo originals and covers including the Curtis Mayfield classic ‘Move On Up’, Spirit Rising is the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2012

Hakon Storm: Zinober

Norwegian guitarist goes solo on a specialist selection of acoustic and electric crossing fusion, classical and Mediterranean moods....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Eh Joe: Is Love the Word?

Mila Dores | Sam Watts | Rus Pearson | Joost Hendrickx

With her fluorescent blue wig, typewriter (on which she ‘solos’) and inspirations that include Samuel Beckett and Hindustani music, Portugueseborn...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Jack Davies' Flea Circus

James Opstad | Jack Davies | Aidan Shepherd | Rob Cope

This trio of releases from 26-year-old trumpeter-and-more Jack Davies constitute an impressive calling card. Davies won the Deutsche Bank award...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012

John Surman: Saltash Bells

Lorenzo Feliciati

This is John Surman's first solo ‘solo’ record in 18 years and the seventh in a sequence that began in...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: June/2012

Sonny Red: Quartet, Quintet & Sextet (2-CDs)

Grant Green | Jimmy Cobb | Sonny Red | Ronnie Matthews | Yusef Lateef | George Tucker | Clifford Jordan | Art Davis | Bob Cranshaw | Barry Harris

It goes without saying that virtually every altoist in the late-1940s and 50s was infl uenced to some extent by...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2012

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas IV

Brandon Seabrook | Tony Malaby | Kenny Wollesen | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks

The instrument at the heart of this recording by the prolific New Yorkbased Norwegian bassist Eivind Opsvik is the harpsichord....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Jeff Parker Trio: Bright Light In Winter

Chris Lopes | Chad Taylor | Jeff Parker

A key member of the Chicago music scene who has worked in a wide variety of contexts, guitarist Parker seems...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis and Johnny Griffin Quintet: Live at Minton's Playhouse NYC

Larry Gales | Junior Mance | Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis | Ben Riley | Johnny Grifln

This exuberant session took place more than 40 years ago, yet my recollections of the same band playing a steamy...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2012

Nino Rota: Collector

This is a fine collection of the music Nino Rota composed for the films of Federico Fellini, the two exceptions...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: February/2013