Wayne Escoffery: Vortex

Ugonna Okegwo | David Kikoski | Kush Abadey | Wyne Escoffery | Ralph Peterson | Jeremy Pelt | Jacquelene Acevedo

You probably know towering tenorman Escoffery well from his gigs here in the UK with the Mingus Big Band and...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2018

Laurent De Wilde: New Monk Trio

The French-based pianist-keyboardist Laurent De Wilde celebrates Thelonious Monk's 2017 centenary by giving his quirky classics what is a slightly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Meg Morley Trio: Can't Get Started

Richard Sadler | Meg Morley | Emiliano Caroselli

A sometime pianist for silent-cinema by night, Morley swiftly followed 2017's solo piano debut Through the Hours by forming a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2018

Anton Hunter: Article XI

Simon Prince | Cath Roberts | Richard Foote | Nick Walters | Mette Rasmussen | Sam Andreae | Anton Hunter | Graham South | Johnny Hunter | Seth Bennett

Perhaps best known as guitarist in Manchester's Beats & Pieces Big Band, Hunter was commissioned by the city's jazz festival...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2018

Sonny Rollins: Way Out West In Stereo

Sonny Rollins | Ray Brown | Shelley Manne

On the 60th anniversary of the first stereo issue of Way Out West on Lester Koenig's Contemporary label in 1957,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Lewis Porter: Beauty & Mystery

Tia Fuller | Lewis Porter | Terri Lyne Carrington | John Patitucci

The veteran pianist Lewis Porter has an impressive résumé with his work behind the scenes as academic and author, having...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Atlantic Bridge

Daryl Runswick | Mike Travis | Jim Philip | Mike McNaught

Long lusted after on the vinyl market, this is the first CD release of a re-mastered version of the original...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2018

Blicher Hemmer Gadd: Omara

Saxophonist Michael Blicher is joined by über-session drummer Steve Gadd and long-time associate Dan Hemmer on organ for a fairly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Dave Liebman: Fire

Dave Holland | Kenny Werner | Jack DeJohnette | Dave Liebman

This album makes it impossible not to circle around the well-used cliché about how the texture, taste and bouquet of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Woody Herman And His Orchestra: The Wildroot Shows 1946

Compared to the Jazz Unlimited release of some of these 1946 radio shows, the music here is somewhat dominated by...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018