Sun of Goldfinger: Congratulations to You

David Torn

The congratulations of the title is surely a tribute to Sun of Goldfinger's decade-long anniversary as this is a ‘live’...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Ulf Wakenius: A Taste of Honey

Ulf Wakenius

Anyone who knows Ulf Wakenius's work from his playing in Oscar Peterson's latterday quartet will recall his combative jousting with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/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 by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2020

The Christian McBride Big Band: For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver

Christian McBride

For almost a decade, Christian McBride's big band has been admired for its power, exuberance and swing – pretty much...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020

Kate Westbrook/The Granite Band: Earth Felt the Wound

Kate Westbrook

Kate Westbrook returns with the Granite band that so powerfully debuted with the album of that name. But where Granite...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2020

The Mark Masters Ensemble: Night Talk – The Alec Wilder Songbook Featuring Gary Smulyan

Gary Smulyan

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes Smulyan as ‘the leading American exponent of post-bop baritone’ and that seems about...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2020

Billy Childs: Acceptance

Billy Childs

Childs' last new release, 2017's Rebirth, was greeted with considerable pleasure in Jazzwise 218 and with nothing less than a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2020

Alexander Flood: Heartbeat

Mentore›d by Christian Scott, this dexterous Australian student drummer debuts with a sledgehammer approach to his hi-energy mix ‘n’ match...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Machito and his Afro Cuban Salseros: Mucho Macho

Machito

Machito was two years into a residency at La Conga Club in midtown Manhattan in May 1943, when he was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2020

Count Basie: Basie at Birdland

Count Basie

Here it is; the classic that Georgie Fame memorably immortalised in his composition ‘Vinyl’ a few years back, and on...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2020