Dr Lonnie Smith: Breathe

Olicia Olatuja | Sean Jones | Jason Marshall | Johnathan Blake | Robin Eubanks | John Ellis | Iggy Pop | Jonathan Kreisberg | Dr Lonnie Smith

This is the third album of Lonnie Smith's highly productive return to Blue Note, and the second drawn from his...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2021

Michael Wolff: Live @ Vitellos

Mark Isham | Michael Wolff | John B. Williams | Mike Clark

Pianist Wolff has kept good company in his time, working with Cal Tjader and Cannonball Adderley in the 1970s and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2021

Dan McCarthy: A Place Where We Once Lived

Toronto-born vibraphonist Dan McCarthy's playing is moody and reflective on this new digital-only release, and it fits perfectly with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/Pat Thomas: Some Good News

William Parker | Hamid Drake | Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas | Elaine Mitchener

Heavyweight UK improvisers Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas conceived Black Top in 2011 as an open-ended duo augmented by a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Olie Brice/Binker Golding/Henry Kaiser/NO Moore/Eddie Prévost: The Secret Handshake With Danger Vol. One

Olie Brice | NO Moore | Eddie Prévost | Binker Golding, | Henry Kaiser

Eddie Prévost's belief in improvisation's mysteries and social implications was forged in 1965 with AMM, a group inevitably riven with...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2021

Jim Howard: Forever Between

Richard Bolton | Jim Howard | Thad Kelly | Attab Haddad | Ant Romero

After a jazz education at the Guildhall School of Music in 1990, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Howard returned to his...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021

Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Uri Caine | John Scofield | Renee Rosnes | Franco Ambrosetti | Jack DeJohnette | Scott Colley

There are those who, in the past, have sniped at the stellar company with whom the trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti has...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz At Oberlin

Ron Crotty | Dave Brubeck | Paul Desmond | Lloyd Davis

In all his extensive discography, Dave Brubeck cited the albums Jazz at Oberlin and Jazz at the College of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias: Some Kind Of Tomorrow

Jane Ira Bloom | Mark Helias

Bloom has been turning out brilliant albums since the late 1970s and, for all that time, has played only soprano....

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2021

Jim Snidero: Live at the Deer Head Inn

Peter Washington | Orrin Evans | Jim Snidero | Joe Farnsworth

Jim Snidero's previous release, 2019's Waves of Calm, was inspired by his father's fight against Parkinson's disease. The mix of...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2021