Ron McClure: Lucky Sunday

Ron McClure | Anthony Ferrera | Rob Block | Pete Zimmer

McClure, bassist with the 1967-68 Charles Lloyd quartet, the early 1970s Fourth Way and the 1980s band Quest, has pursued...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Yong Yandsen/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Paal Nilssen-Love: Hungry Ghosts

Full-throttle free-improv with impressive Malaysian saxophonist Yandsen making a cathartic jazz noise alongside a feral Nordic bass and drums pairing....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

John McLaughlin Trio: Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Kai Eckhardt | Trilok Gurtu | John McLaughlin

While recent concerts with John McLaughlin’s 4th Dimension quartet have seen him refocus on the overdriven scream of his Mahavishnu...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2020

Red Norvo: Knockin’ On Wood

Now that the French Classics series are virtually impossible to get, this is a good way of sampling much of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Harry Connick Jr: True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter

Bob Sheppard | Harry Connick, Jr | Neal Caine | Mark Braud | Lucien Barbarin

For his debut album on the legendary Verve label, musician and actor Harry Connick Jr constructs, conducts and arranges a...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2020

Big John Patton: Oh Baby!

Grant Green | Ben Dixon | John Patton | Harold Vick | Blue Mitchell

Though Patton is one of the ‘Hammond heroes’ indelibly associated with the 1960s heyday of the instrument he enjoyed a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife

Dan Leavers | Max Hallett | Shabaka Hutchings | Joshua Idehen

This EP companion to Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery comes from the same sessions, and expands on...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2020

Ronnie Scott & Friends: The Esquire Collection 1953-1956

Phil Seamen | Arthur Watts | Eddie Taylor | Benny Green | Alan Clare | Jimmy Deuchar | Victor Feldman | Lennie Bush | Ken Wray | Rocky Coluccio

In what now seems an unstoppable process, local modern jazz from the 1950s, sometimes thought of as being a poor...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club/My Journey Through Literature in Music

Trumpeter Lynch pays homage to a clutch of African-American authors across two discs, sprinkling modern jazz, Caribbean and latin flavours...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Joy Ellis: Dwell

This singer-songwriter shows her quality with lyrics and jazz-piano arrangements that unobtrusively echo Joni Mitchell and early Christine Tobin through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020