Erroll Garner: Magician

Erroll Garner

Preceding Plays Gershwin and Kern, the concluding record in this reissue series of Garner's Octave recordings (reviewed in the July...

Reviewed in issue September/2020

John Beasley MONK’estra: MONK’estra Plays John Beasley

John Beasley

John Beasley has an impressive CV – work with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan and...

Reviewed in issue September/2020

Erroll Garner: Plays Gershwin and Kern

Kelly Martin | Jimmie Smith | Erroll Garner | Charles ‘Ike’ Isaacs | José Mangual | Eddie Calhoun

This final album in the 12-record series of Garner's Octave records from the 1960s and 70s begins with a version...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Erroll Garner: That's My Kick

Charli Persip | Milt Hinton | Jerome Richardson | Jimmie Smith | Bernie Glow | Erroll Garner | Marvin Stamm | Johnny Pacheco | George Jenkins | George Duvivier

The first of these albums, That's My Kick, marks Garner's return to the studio in 1966 after a five-year gap.Despite...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Connie Han: Iron Starlet

Ivan Taylor | Bill Wysake | Connie Han | Jeremy Pelt | Walter Smith III

Going by just appearance, you might mistake the 24-year old pianist Connie Han for a glamorous female classical crossover artist...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Jimmy Greene: While Looking Up

Aaron Goldberg | Jimmy Greene | Stefon Harris | Kendrick Scott | Lage Lund | Reuben Rogers

The heavyweight support on American multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Greene's latest release are long-term acquaintances, who since recording with Greene, have developed...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Aaron Diehl: The Vagabond

Aaron Diehl | Paul Sikivie | Gregory Hutchinson

Aaron Diehl, the award-engulfed pianist and composer from Ohio, is the kind of jazz artist who coaxes grateful smiles from...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Album Interview: Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons

Michael Bease | Steve Davis | Lew Soloff | Christian McBride | James Burton | Doug Purviance | Carl Maraghi | Ron Blake | Warren Wolf | Geoffrey Keezer

A great contemporary bassist, McBride has also become an important educator and advocate for both the artform and African-American culture...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Erroll Garner: Campus Concert

It’s over 20 years since Telarc reissued the albums on Garner’s own Octave label and now Mack Avenue have taken...

Reviewed in issue February/2020

Roberto Fonseca: Yesun

Yipsi Li Avila | Danay Suarez | Joe Lovano | Yandy Martínez Rodríguez | Raúl Herrera | Gema 4 | Roberto Fonseca | Ibrahim Maalouf | Mercedes Cortés | Inor Sotolongo

Afro-Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader Fonseca played a blinder at EartH in Hackney last December, buoyed by the same trio...

Reviewed in issue February/2020