Josh Arcoleo: Beginnings

Jerry Weldon | Grant Stewart | Frank Basile | Clovis Nicolas | Pete Van Nostrand | Andy Farber | Bruce Harris | Michael Weiss | Dmitry Baevsky

Not the soul funk you might expect from a protégé of Pee Wee Ellis, but a tight yet melodic set...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

JD Allen Trio: Victory!

Rudy Royston | JD Allen | Gregg August

This reviewer has been singing the praises of JD Allen since his debut as a leader on Italy's Red Records’...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2012

Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita, Sebastian Rochford: Trio Libero

Andy Sheppard | Michel Benita | Sebastian Rochford

This is an album of stately elegance and beauty. Featuring 13 tunes over its 51-minute length, it flows gracefully from...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: February/2012

Partikel: Cohesion

Eric Ford | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert

The follow-up to last year's very impressive eponymous debut. Partikel is a young contemporary jazz three piece with a taste...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Fabian Almazan Trio: Personalities

Karen Walluch | Linda Oh | Fabian Almazan | Megan Gould | Meg Okura | Henry Cole | Noah Hatfield

One of the best ways to succeed in music today, it seems, is to be associated with trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2012

Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge: Roy and Diz

Joyous jousting by JATP's two finest trumpet stars, plus the Peterson quartet makes for great entertainment....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Charles Mingus: Presents Charles Mingus

Much re-released quartet from 1960, originally on Candid, with some of Eric Dolphy's finest playing....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Oscar Peterson Trio: Plays My Fair Lady, Porgy And Bess and Fiorello!

Three classic OP albums from the period just after Herb Ellis quit, with Gene Gammage and then Ed Thigpen reinventing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

Michael Cain: Solo

Andrew McCormack

The Brooklyn-based pianist has recorded with Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane, but goes it alone here with a mostly unconvincing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Deborah Winters: Lovers After All

Rich-toned if fairly limited SF-based singer in a standards set arranged for large ensemble by trumpeter Peter Welker....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012