Kahil El’ Zabar Quartet: A Time For Healing

Corey Wilkes | Justin Dillard | Kahil El’Zabar | Isaiah Collier

Percussionist-bandleader-educator Kahil El’Zabar has been a noted elder statesman of the Chicago scene for many years, but in the past...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2022

Tim Lefebvre & Jason Lindner: Sedato EP

Having met up in the Donny McCaslin band that played on Bowie’s final Blackstar album, heavy duty bassist Lefebvre and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Scary Goldings: Scary Goldings IV

Tamir Barzilay | John Scofield | Ryan Lerman | Lemar Carter | Louis Cole | Jack Conte | Larry Goldings | MonoNeon

Twin the close funky control of Hammond organist Larry Goldings with the chiselled grooves of the funk collective Scary Pockets,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2022

Maynard Ferguson: The Lost Tapes Bonus

Ronnie Scott | Ronnie Ross | Maynard Ferguson

What are we supposed to make of this? As with Sleepy Night’s previous volume of archive Ferguson material, this is...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2022

Hedvig Mollestad: Tempest Revisited

Per Oddvar Johansen | Marte Eberson | Karl Nyberg | Ivar Loe Bjornstad | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen | Martin Myrhe Olsen | Trond Frosnes | Peter Erik Vergeni

Mollestad’s Trio, whose two shows brought the house down at the recent EFG London Jazz Festival, may have brought her...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Ella Fitzgerald: The Singles

Ray Linn | Mel Lewis | Sy Oliver | Lloyd Ulyate | Buddy Bregman | Barry Galbraith | Dick Hyman | Joe Mondragon | Conrad Gozzo | Charlie Shavers

Originally released in 2017, this collection documents almost a decade of Ella Fitzgerald at the top of her game, recording...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022

Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Resonant Bodies

Rudolph, a free thinking world-jazz percussionist best known for a lasting tenure with Yusef Lateef, composed and spontaneously conducted an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Sara Colman: Ink On A Pin: A Celebration of Joni Mitchell

Percy Pursglove | Jonathan Silk | Rebecca Nash | Sara Colman | Steve Banks | Ning-Ning Li | Katy Nagle | Ben Markland | Natalie Mason | Beth Bellis

It's a brave artist who follows the likes of Ian Shaw and, most serenely, Luciana Souza and Norah Jones on...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Eberhard Weber: Once Upon a Time – Live in Avignon

Eberhard Weber

A major figure in the German and European jazz scenes, this album captures Weber in full flight in an adventurous...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2022

Hadda Brooks: Out of the Blue: The Singles and Albums Collection 1945-53

Eddie Barefield | Basie Day | Grachan Moncur | Hadda Brooks | Red Callendar | Marty Wilson | Kelly Owens | Abie Baker | Taft Jordan | Bill Davis

In the late 1940s, Hadda Brooks made a name for herself via the Modern record label in Los Angeles, founded...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2022