MSMW: In Case The World Changes Its Mind Live

John Scofield | Billy Martin | John Medeski | Chris Wood

The wonder is that it's taken five years to follow up the splendid Out Louder with this mammoth double CD...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2012

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

Erika Angell | Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Fredrik Ljungkvist | Miriam Wallentin

This album combines two thirds of the Bobo Stenson Trio (Jormin and Fält) with the elegant voices of Wallentin and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2012

Johnny Hammond: Wild Horses Rock Steady

Airto Moreira | Bernard Purdie | Melvin Sparks | Johnny Hammond | Billy Cobham | Pepper Adams | Harold Vick | Eric Gale | Grover Washington Jr | Ron Carter

There's a killer line-up involved here, yet this glossy album contains little to detain serious students of jazz. It's hard...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2012

John Handy Quintet And Quartet: In The Vernacular/No Coast Jazz

Sir Roland Hanna | Roy Haynes | Don Friedman | George Tucker | Bobby Fuhlrodt | John Handy | Bill Lee | Richard Williams | Lex Humphries

John Handy recorded these two spirited albums for Roulette around the same time as he participated in the sessions for...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012

George Gruntz: Noon In Tunisia

Salah El Mahdi | Daniel Humair | Jelloul Osman | Jean Luc Ponty | Moktar Slama | George Gruntz | Eberhard Weber | Sahib Shihab | Hattab Jouini

Swiss pianist and big band leader Gruntz conceived this date as a meeting of cultures, bringing together a handful of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2012

Stan Getz: Stan Getz In Halen

Stan Getz | Jan Johansson | William Schiopffe | Daniel Jordan

Never mind the music, I can well imagine heated solicitor's letters being hastily expressed by Universal Records to the audacious...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012

Tania Maria: Tempo

From its very opening bars, a luxuriantly voiced chordal introduction to ‘Estate’, this meeting between pianist-vocalist Tania Maria and bassist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2015

Francois Carrier: In Motion

David Bowden | Joe Williamson | Stephen Henderson | Peter Johnstone

Regular Russian Leo-recording pianist joins a Canadian saxophonist/leader and drummer for a post-Trane free jazz session of fiery insistence....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

E Simon S Colley C Penn: A Master's Diary

A tribute to Italian film composer Fiorenzo Carpi by an expert American trio led by pianist Edward Simon....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Ola Onabule: Seven Shades Darker

Good-natured soul-R'B with a singer in the Philly-Detroit 1970s vein, though backed by jazzy horns/rhythm that's closer to 80s pop-soul....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012