Mike Cooper: Oh Really!/Do I Know You?/Trout Steel/Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co.

Tim Richardson | Peter Civil | Stan Sulzman | Stefan Grossman | Nick Pickett | Tony Pook | John Marshall | Tony Coe | Norma Winstone | Frank Ricotti

Here's a treat, if a fragmented one. Jazzwise readers will be most intrigued by hearing so many heroes of Jazz...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2019

Baiju Bhatt & Red Sun: Eastern Sonata

Influenced by Mahavishnu and fusion-era Pat Metheny among others, the Swiss-Indian violinist-composer's Red Sun band's hyper exuberance is busy but...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Quiana Lynell: A Little Love

Monte Croft | Ed Cherry | Cyrus Chestnut | Jamison Ross | Quiana Lynell | George DeLancey

The first thing that strikes you when listening to album opener ‘We Are’ on this impressive debut album from Texas-born,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2019

Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter

Kenny Washington | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks | Betty Carter

A feature on Betty Carter in the Village Voice in the late 1970s feared she might die an unknown genius...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019

Ruby Rushton: Ironside

Nick Walters | Tim Carnegie | Aidan Shepherd | Ed Cawthorne

Better known as Tenderlonius, Ed Cawthorne reversed traditional steps to loving jazz, retracing the path of hip-hop and house records...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019

Aki Takase Japanic: Thema Prima

Dag Magnus Narvesen | Daniel Erdmann | Aki Takase | DJ Illvibe | Johannes Fink

A long-time Berlin resident, the pianist-composer Aki Takase went into a Budapest recording studio with new band Japanic for her...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Snarky Puppy: Immigrance

Chris Bullock | Bobby Sparks | Michael League | Jason ‘JT’ Thomas | Jay Jennings | Keita Ogawa | Larnell Lewis | Jamison Ross | Bill Laurance | Mark Lettieri

Immigrance is a roomy album, accumulating effect from musically discrete, highly structured tracks, trashing old notions of Snarky Puppy as...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019

Yelena Eckemoff: Colors

The prolific Russian pianist is used to collaborating with A-listers and is well-matched here with French drummer Manu Katché, in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May

Aaron Goldberg | Joshua Redman | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers

Redman's recent gig at the Barbican with his Old and New Dreams project showed him to be on excellent form...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2019

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: ‘Live’ at The Cafe Bohemia, November 1955

Doug Watkins | Kenny Dorham | Horace Silver | Hank Mobley | Art Blakey

This double-CD repackage of the original Messengers sole live recording illustrates how ludicrously wide of the mark certain stylistic labels...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: June/2019