Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins: Mirror, Mirror

Chick Corea | Billy Higgins | Joe Henderson | Ron Carter

This not-so-well-known session under the auspices of Joe Henderson well deserves the relative obscurity it seems to enjoy. Despite the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live In Tokyo

Charles Tolliver | Clint Houston | Clifford Barbaro | Stanley Cowell

This superb 1974-released live album, recorded on Music Inc’s first Japanese tour, begins in the most Tolliveresque way possible –...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2022

Alabaster de Plume: Gold

Paddy Steer | Tom Skinner | Luisa Gerstein | Michael Chestnutt | Danalogue | Matt Webb | Elly Condron | Rosa Slade | Hannah Miller | Falle Nioke

Manchester’s Alabaster de Plume is one of the most underrated artists working in Britain, a jazz-folk boundary-pusher with a quiet,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022

Javon Jackson: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni

Jeremy Manasia | Nikki Giovanni | McClenty Hunter | David Williams | Javon Jackson

The 78-year old Giovanni is a renowned African-American poet, Black Arts activist and educator who linked with Jackson when she...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2022

Mark Turner: Return From The Stars

Jonathan Pinson | Jason Palmer | Joe Martin | Mark Turner

This is the California and Berklee-raised saxophonist/composer's first quartet album since 2014's gracefully polyphonic Lathe of Heaven, and it repeats...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2022

Zaitz & Kavuma: Back to Back

Artie Zaitz | Will Cleasby | Mark Kavuma

There ain’t ‘alf been some clever bastards, as Ian Dury was wont to reflect, and here we have Kavuma and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2022

Roswell Rudd and Duck Baker: Live

Roswell Rudd | Duck Baker

Here’s a diamond in the rough, small but beautiful. Rudd always gets packaged as the doyen of free improvisers, but,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2022

Ron Jackson: Standards & My Songs

Willie Jones III | Ben Wolfe | Ron Jackson

Jackson, born in the Philippines when his father was there in the military, grew up in Boston and was educated...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2022

Dave Wilson: Stretching Supreme

Recorded live at Chris' Jazz Café in Philadelphia, this multi-reedsman isn’t the first and won’t be the last to pay...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Alex Webb: British Standard Time

Carroll Thompson | Luca Manning | Tony Momrelle | Jo Harrop | Tony Kofi | Leo Richardson | Sophie Alloway | Jamie McCredie | Flo Moore | Alex Webb

This new 15-track album from pianist, songwriter and MD Alex Webb presents a quartet of exceptional vocalists, a stellar cast...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2022