Dave Stapleton: Flight

Mike Mitchell | Jeremy Dutton | Burniss Traviss | James Francies | Mike Moreno | Joel Ross

Flight is an important step in the career of Dave Stapleton and marks a temporary break from his quintet that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Roberto Fonseca: Yo

Sekou Kouyate | Munir Hossn | Felipe Cabrera | Ramses Rodriguez | Roberto Fonseca | Faudel Amil | Fatoumata Diawara | Baba Sissoko | Damien Francisco Nueva | Joel Hierrezuelo

While the sight of the Cuban pianist stripped to the waist may have echoes of Voodooera D'Angelo, this is not...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012

Dimitry Baevsky: The Composers

A young St Petersburg-reared New Yorkbased softly hard bop saxophonist paying tribute to modernist jazz composers in a band featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Guy Klucevsek: The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour

A feast of multilingual sounds from an exceptional US accordionist touching on Satie, Martin Denny, Swingle Singers through to Bulgarian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Various artists: The Jubilee Years: 20 Magic Years

Wolfgang Haffner | Rigmor Gustafsson | Vince Mendoza-Al Di Meola-Mike Brecker | Gerardo Nunez-Michael Brecker | Paolo Fresu | Michael Wollny's | Joel Harrison-Norah Jones | Christof Lauer | Lars Danielsson-Leszek Mozdzer | Bugge Wesseltoft

Some choice cuts here from the ACT vaults, and a reminder of the wide range of jazz produced by this...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2012

Sandra Nkake: Nothing for Granted

This soulful French-Cameroonian singersongwriter lands somewhere between Grace Jones and Nina Simone, and her English lyrics have a social conscience....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Batist: Traumstoff

This polite chamber trio from Germany headed by vocalist Barbara Bürkle touches many bases from Irish folk, Brazilian, Indian drone...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Joel Harrison 7: Search

Donny McCaslin | Christian Howes | Dana Leong | Clarence Penn | Joel Harrison | Stephan Crump | Gary Versace

The Washington DC guitarist-composer Joel Harrison (and sometime rugged country-blues singer, though not here) has been cooking up his own...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond

Scott McLemore | Porgrimur Jónsson | Sunna Gunnlaugs

This is Sunna Gunnlaugs’ first trio album in 13 years, and here she is accompanied by Porgrimur Jónsson on bass...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2012

Biréli Lagrène and Sylvain Luc: Best Moments

Sylvain Luc | Biréli Lagrène

Biréli Lagrène first made an impact on the jazz scene when he was 13, releasing Routes to Django: Live in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012