Volker Kriegel: Spectrum

Hiromi

Recorded when he was just 27-years-old and enjoying considerable crossover success as a member of the Dave Pike Set, German...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Laila Biali

Larnell Lewis | Ben Witman | Mike ‘Maz’ Maher | Sam Yahel | Laila Biali | George Koller | Ambrose Akinmusire

The Vancouver-born vocalist, pianist and songwriter Laila Biali serves up an impressive ACT debut with a combination of mellifluous vocals,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2018

Esther Phillips: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Frank Tusa | Badal Roy | Richie Beirach | Jeff Williams | Dave Liebman

Mixing jazz, soul, funk and the blues, this 2CD live album recorded at Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall in Hamburg bursts...

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

Jim Pepper: The Path

Stanton Davis | Caren Knight | Santi Debriano | Arto Tunçboyac༹an | Kirk Lightsey | Jim Pepper | John Betsch

The late Jim Pepper, the Native American saxophonist who died in 1992, still enjoys a considerable following in the US...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Peter Horsfall: Nighthawks

Joe Webb | Pedro Segundo | Peter Horsfall | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith

Named after, and partly inspired by, Edward Hopper’s iconic painting of the same name, Peter Horsfall’s homage to the ballad...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley: Philosopher's Stone

Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | Brandon Lopez | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | William Parker | Joe Hertenstein | Bobby Kapp | Gerald Cleaver

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream

Ralph Alessi | Tom Rainey | Ingrid Laubrock | Kris Davis | Drew Gress

I’ve enjoyed hearing these musicians operate in other combinations and contexts – witness, for example, the striking originality of Tom...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Lenore Raphael, Wayne Wilkinson & Chris Hodgkins: Pizza Express Live

Lenore Raphael | Wayne Wilkinson | Chris Hodgkins

Trumpeter Hodgkins, the former Director of Jazz Services, and now a willing freelance player, has usually tended to record with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Max Roach: Four Classic Albums

The legendary drummer-composer and social activist went through a period of immense creativity in the late 1950s, the culmination of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020

Iiro Rantala & Ulf Wakenius: Good Stuff

Ulf Wakenius | Iiro Rantala

Rantala and Wakenius combined to memorable effect on the album Tears for Esbjorn, recorded live in October 2015 as part...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018