Jihye Lee Orchestra: Daring Mind

Sean Jones

A decade ago, South Korean former indie-pop singer Jihye Lee found her way to Boston's Berklee College of Music as...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2021

Rebecca Vasmant: With Love, From Glasgow

Nikki Foster

Rebecca Vasmant deserves plaudits for her tireless work promoting the diverse but undersung talents of her fellow Glasgow jazz musicians...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: June/2021

Roy Mor: After The Real Thing

Roy Mor

An intriguing bandleader debut from Israeli pianist, composer and arranger Mor, whose background stints as a military paratrooper and a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021

Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

Niel Ardley

At the suggestion of Denis Preston, who had produced Ardley's The Greek Variations (1969) and A Symphony of Amaranths (1971)...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021

The Code Quartet: Genealogy

Lex French

As the notes accompanying Genealogy put it, the album “builds on the freedom of expression pioneered by Ornette Coleman's seminal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021

Joe Williams: Four Classic Albums

Joe Williams

It would be truer to say that this is two classic albums, with a pair of additional records of wildly...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2021

Paul Dunmall & Mark Sanders: Unity

Paul Dunmall

Despite playing together for decades and collaborating on 28 separate releases, saxophonist Paul Dunmall and drummer Mark Sanders have never...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2021

Chet Baker: It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker

These landmark 1950s Riverside albums have been issued, reissued, mastered and remastered, and packaged and repackaged countless times over the...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2021

Svarc Hanley Longhawn: 20/21

The energetic Leeds scene is home to this persuasive young guitar-keys-drums trio, formed in 2012, that draw on B3 organ...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021

Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem

Joe Henderson

All the finest jazz that has been handed down to us on recordings are impossible to separate from the cultural...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021