Randy Brecker & Ada Rovatti: Sacred Bond – Brecker Plays Rovatti

Jim Beard | Rodney Holmes | Adam Rogers | Ada Rovatti | Randy Brecker | David Kikoski | Café Da Silva | Stella Brecker | Alexander Claffy

Trumpeter Randy Brecker is well known, saxophonist Ada Rovatti, his frontline partner and wife, less so, at least in jazz...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Arild Andersen: The Triangle

John Marshall | Vassilis Tsabropoulos | Arild Andersen

Arild Andersen's two albums with the Greek concert pianist, conductor and composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos – Achirana (2000) and The Triangle...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Live in Poland

Darius Brubeck | Matt Ridley | Dave O'Higgins | Wesley Gibbens

How often do you come away from a jazz concert wishing it could have been bottled, and later poured out...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Eliane Elias: Love Stories

Marc Johnson | Marcus Texiera | Celso Almeida | Eliane Elias

On Love Stories the sirenic power of Eliane Elias's voice, the unexpected twists and turns of her piano reharmonisations, coupled...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Wallace Roney: Blue Dawn – Blue Nights

Lenny White | Paul Cuffari | Quintin Zoto | Emilio Modeste | Wallace Roney | Oscar Williams | Kojo Odu Roney

The American critic Francis Davis astutely observed in the liner-notes to Wallace Roney's 2010 album, If Only For One Night,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things

Steve Davis | Jimmy Garrison | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones | John Coltrane

Here it is; the album that introduced John Coltrane's soprano to the wider world. Besides this reason to be cheerful,...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Study In Brown

George Morrow | Harold Land | Max Roach | Richie Powell | Sonny Rollins | Clifford Brown

“The thing about that band,” the late, great British jazz trumpet giant Derek Watkins once told me, “is that it...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto

Fiery trumpeter-composer Taylor Ho Bynum's band formed of his contemporaries – Tomas Fujiwara and Mary Halvorson among them – wonderfully...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet: Live at the Jazz Cafe 091218

Byron Wallen | Andrew McCormack | Daniel Casimir | Jean Toussaint | Willias Cumberbache Perez | Dennis Rollins | Shaney Forbes

Spread across two CDs this is the bulk of an evening gig in London by the Toussaint Sextet last December....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Sara Gazarek: Thirsty Ghost

Christian Euman | Stu Mindeman | Josh Johnson | Sara Gazarek | Alex Boneham

Gazarek's first self-produced album, Thirsty Ghost, is also the most personal of her career to date. Featuring songs selected over...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020