Dr John: Ske Dat De Dat – The Spirit of Satch

Bonnie Raitt | Anthony Hamilton | Arturo Sandoval | Nicholas Payton | Dr John | The McCrary Sisters | The Blind Boys of Alabama | Terence Blanchard | Ledisi | Shemekia Copeland

Maybe they should have released Locked Down (the late good Doctor's 2012 collaboration with Black Keys hero Dan Auerbach) instead...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2020

Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition: Album Album

Howard Johnson | Rufus Reid | David Murray | John Purcell | Jack DeJohnette

When Jack DeJohnette produced and recorded Album Album at New York's Power Station in June 1984, he created a classic....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Pandelis Karayorgis Double Trio: Cliff Falls

Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis' previous studies of Monk are at the forefront of an unusual double trio format of Brooklyn-based musicians...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Marie Kruttli Trio: The Kind of Happy One

Marie Kruttli | Lukas Traxel | Jonathan Barber

This piano trio floats on the wide interface between jazz and classical music, allowing the piano to fall fully into...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: June/2020

John Scofield: Swallow Tales

John Scofield | Steve Swallow | Bill Stewart

John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Ricardo Grilli: 1962

Brazilian guitarist Grilli's A-team features Mark Turner and Eric Harland but the compositions and contemporary fusion, hard bop and latin-jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Bruno Heinen Trio: Out of Doors

Andrea Di Biase | Gene Calderazzo | Bruno Heinen

The eight albums by Bruno Heinen, the composer, improviser and Trinity Laban Conservatoire piano professor, have included variations on nursery...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Jure Pukl: Broken Circles

Matt Brewer | Jure Pukl | Charles Altura | Kweku Sumbry | Joel Ross

In the brief sleeve notes for his second CD for Whirlwind, recorded in New York, the Slovenian-born saxophonist-composer Jure Pukl...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Omer Avital Qantar: New York Paradox

Asaf Yuria | Ofri Nehemya | Eden Levin | Alexander Levein | Omer Avital

Omer Avital hit the ground running during the first incarnation of Smalls, at the time an alcohol-free jazz club run...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Ambiance: Into A New Journey

Randy Landis | Rick Smith | Monife | Danny Newmark | Kim Cornwell | Jim Lum | Daaoud Abubakar Balewa | June Kuramoto | Tyrone Ponder | Atiji Malomon

Ambiance was the stage name of saxophonist-vocalist Daaoud Abubakar Balewa, (which was also later extended to Ambiance II Fusion), and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2020