Aaron Parks: Little Big

Greg Tuohey | Aaron Parks | David Ginyard | Tommy Crane

For Invisible Cinema, his much-admired 2008 Blue Note debut, Seattle-born Aaron Parks was welcomed as a rising piano star –...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2019

Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Screen Off

Paal Nilssen-Love | Ken Vandermark

This 10th album from the longstanding, high-energy, improvising sax/drums duo is a retrospective compilation of extracts from live shows recorded...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019

Seamus Blake: Guardians of the Heart Machine

Tony Tixier | Florent Nisse | Gautier Garrigue | Seamus Blake

Having played with practically everybody who is anybody on the highly competitive New York jazz scene over the last quarter...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019

Mark Guiliana: Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!

BIGYUKI | Jef Babko | Troy Zeigler | Jef Taylor | Marley Guiliana | Cole Whittle | Tim Lefebvre | Jason Lindner | Steve Wall | Mark Guiliana

New Jersey-born Guiliana has been brewing his hybrid electro-jazz elixir for the best part of two decades now, and yet...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2019

John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell: Complete Studio Sessions

Doug Watkins | Mal Waldron | Donald Byrd | Jimmy Cobb | Paul Chambers | Kenny Burrell | Art Taylor | John Coltrane | Horace Silver | Philly Joe Jones

John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell's association on the bandstand goes back to their time with the Dizzy Gillespie band in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019

Paul Dunmall Sun Ship Quartet/Alan Skidmore/Julie Kjær/Ståle Liavik Solberg/Mark Wastell: John Coltrane 50th Memorial Co

Anthony Bianco | Howard Cottle | Alan Skidmore | Julie Kjær | Mark Wastell | Paul Dunmall | Ståle Liavik Solberg | Olie Brice

This performance of John Coltrane's music was held at London's Cafe OTO as a memorial gig to mark the 50th...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2019

Kevin Hays/Chiara Izzi: Across The Sea

Pianist Hays duets with the young Italian singer Chiara Izzi on a repertoire of standards and originals that's on the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Harold Land: Four Classic Albums

Avid's Classic Albums series has focused on several reed players whose work has come back into focus as a result,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Jeremy Pelt: The Artist

Allan Mednard | Victor Gould | Frank Locrasto | Chien Chien Lu | Jeremy Pelt | Vincente Archer | Alex Wintz

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's blendings of tight Jazz Messengers-like themes with the free flow of Miles Davis's second great quintet are...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2019

Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1

Chick Corea

The contemporary solo piano record could well be said to have begun with this 1971 album by Chick Corea for...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019