Tower Of Power: Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now

Lenny Pickett | Ivory Stone | Carol Rogers | Pat Henley | Ron E. Beck | Chester Thompson | Mic Gillette | Bill Lamb | Greg Adams | Francis Rocco Prestia

The Tower's debut on Columbia found them parking the funkier edge of the early 1970s releases for an altogether more...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2017

Enrico Pieranunzi: Deep Down

Joey Baron | Marc Johnson | Enrico Pieranunzi

When this album was recorded in the mid-1980s and in the two decades that followed, in terms of audience perception...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

Eddie Palmieri: Sabiduria

Little Johnny Rivero | Marcus Miller | Joe Locke | Luques Curtis | Alfredo de la Fe | Eddie Palmieri | Anthony Carrillo | Iwao Sado | Luis Quintero | Obed Calvaire

Eighty years young, and Senor Palmieri knows a thing or two about life, latin jazz and cross-cultural collaborations; this album,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2017

Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro: Rosa Dos Ventos

Dudu Maia | Anat Cohen | Douglas Lora | Alexandre Lora

I was feeling a little sleepy, perhaps a bit downbeat even. Then I put on these two records and I...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2017

Adam Ben Ezra: Pin Drop

The Israeli double-bassist/multi-instrumentalist is doing it all by himself ‘Live in the Round’, looping layers of bass, vocals, piano, guitar...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Larry Elgart: Sophisticated Sixties/The Shape of Sounds to Come

Altoist Elgart was a fine lead alto player, and his 15-piece band contains some similarly good players – all uncredited,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Fred Frith/Hans Koch: You Are Here

At the vanguard of the 1980s downtown movement, Frith's imaginative guitar treatments still sound fresh here as he merges with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Alex Cline's Flower Garden Orchestra: Oceans Of Vows

Brother Phap Khe | Alex Cline | Scott Walton | Yuka C. Honda | Chi Li | Sister Dang Nghiem | Duc Nguyen | G.E. Stinson | Brad Dutz | Will Salmon

Nels Cline's lightning-storm guitar soloing in one of America's finest rock bands, Wilco, has seen his renown eclipse that of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2017

Stan Getz: The Master

Jimmy Cobb | Wilbur Harden | Paul Chambers | John Coltrane | Red Garland

This is a reissue of the 1982 album of the same name which first appeared on vinyl in Columbia's Contemporary...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Jimmy Greene: Flowers – Beautiful Life Vol 2

Ben Williams | Jimmy Greene | Sheena Rattai | Mike Moreno | Jean Baylor | Kevin Hays | John Patitucci | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Renee Rosnes

Jimmy Greene's daughter Ana, then aged 6, was one of the 26 students and staff killed in the 2012 Sandy...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2017