Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutTakes: Previously Unreleased Takes from the Original 1959 Sessions

Joe Morello | Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Paul Desmond

Time Out, lest anybody needs reminding, was the first platinum-selling album in jazz, and the 45 rpm single from it,...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Diana Krall: This Dream Of You

Diana Krall

Fans of Diana Krall's most recent solo album, her 2017 release Turn Up the Quiet, will be delighted to hear...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Coleman Hawkins | Alvin Stoller | Ray Brown | Ben Webster

It's a somewhat rare phenomenon these days for a classic jazz album to be reissued by its copyright ‘owners’. The...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Stan Getz: Getz At The Gate

Steve Kuhn | Stan Getz | Roy Haynes | John Neves

The discovery of an unissued live set, recorded 58 years ago by Verve at a venue it was using sporadically,...

Reviewed in issue September/2019

Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band: Antidote

Steve Davis | Marcus Gilmore | Carlitos Del Puerto | Nino de los Reys | Chick Corea | Gayle Moran Corea | Michael Rodriguez | Maria Bianca | Rubén Blades | Jorge Prado

There's no shortage of compositions – not least ‘Spain’ – or albums by Chick Corea that reflect his love of...

Reviewed in issue September/2019

Philip Bailey: Love Will Find a Way

Earth, Wind & Fire's original vocalist pays warm tribute to soul music heroes Curtis and Marvin with the gloss of...

Reviewed in issue August/2019

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall: Love Is Here To Stay

Kenny Washington | Diana Krall | Peter Washington | Tony Bennett | Bill Charlap

While Bennett and Krall have recorded together before, on Bennett's albums Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001)...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

John Scofield: Combo 66

John Scofield | Vicente Archer | Gerald Clayton | Bill Stewart

This set of all-new John Scofield originals celebrates the Grammygathering guitarist's 66th birthday – but if his senior citizenship inclines...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Banda Magda: Tigre

Chris Bullock | Andres Rotmistrovsky | Keita Ogawa | Mika Mimura | James Shipp | Magda Giannikou | Justin Stanton | Maeve Gilchrist | Ricardo Vogt | Bob Lanzetti

Magda Giannikou is a Greek-born multi-instrumentalist with a vast imagination and a synaesthetic approach to composition, with ideas and sound...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Miles Mosley: Uprising

Tony Austin | Brandon Coleman | Leah Zeger | Nia Andrews | Sonnet Simmons | Peter Jacobson | Ryan Porter | Erin Athey | Zane Musa | Chris Votek

The impact of Kamasi Washington's The Epic, and his presence on Kendrick Lamar's jazz-infused hip hop classic To Pimp A...

Reviewed in issue August/2017