Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else

Hank Jones | Miles Davis | Cannonball Adderley | Sam Jones | Art Blakey

Another vinyl reissue of another classic. The trouble with Somethin’ Else, if indeed it's possible to find fault with a...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2020

Lauren Henderson: The Songbook Session

Understatement can sometimes deflect from rather than project character and it's a bit too much the case with Henderson's whispery...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Matthew Stevens/Walter Smith III: In Common II

Linda May Han Oh | Micah Thomas | Nate Smith | Walter Smith III | Matthew Stevens

Someone found an amusing way of getting round a change in rhythm section for the band pic on the sleeve...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

The Benny Green Trio: Benny's Crib

John Jones | Veronica Swift | Benny Green | Aaron Kimmel | Anne Drummond | David Wong

By the time he was 30, Green had played piano for Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2020

Jaga Jazzist: Pyramid

Even Ormestad | Martin Horntveth | Marcus Forsgren | Andreas Mjøs | Erik Johannessen | David Wallumrød | Line Horntveth | Øystein Moen | Lars Horntveth

This is may be Jaga's eight album, but it also represents their debut on LA's Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label. But...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2020

Ambrose Akinmusire: On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment

Sam Harris | Harish Raghavan | Ambrose Akinmusire | Justin Brown

Putting the extreme vulnerability and complexity of the African-American condition – with possible solace amid the sufferation – into a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020

Peter Rosendale & the Orchestra & Trio Mio: Tricks

This Danish composer's compositions offer a dynamically restless narrative for a post-modernist orchestra; pieces start with a roots-y folk instrumental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Michael Olatuja: Lagos Pepper Soup

Troy Miller | Michael Olatuja | Camille Thurman | Joe Lovano | Aaron Parks | Jason Michael Webb | Angelique Kidjo | Onaje Jefferson | Brandee Younger | Laura Mvula

New York-based British-Nigerian bassist Michael Olatuja is one of the select musicians from over here who has made it over...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020

Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach: Money Jungle

Max Roach | Charles Mingus | Duke Ellington

Along with the output of Bill Evans' great but short-lived group with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, Money Jungle is...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2020

Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis 2

Tilo Weber | Per Johansson | Lucy Railton | Otis Sandsjö | Dan Nicholls | Petter Eldh | Ruhi-Deniz Erdogan | Jonas Kullhammar

In the arms of Otis Sandsjö the tenor saxophone is a many-splendored thing. His suck-blow-suck fluctuations that sensitively held Lucia...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: July/2020