Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis: Con-Soul & Jazz/Wild Bill Is Boss!

Grant Green | Milt Hinton | Billy Butler | Osie Johnson | Grady Tate | Les Spann | Kenny Burrell | Wild Bill Davis | Mundell Lowe | Johnny Hodges

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Yussef Kamaal: Black Focus

Yussef Dayes | Henry Williams

South Londoners Yussef Dayes and Henry Williams draw inspiration from 1970s fusion trademarked by the likes of Herbie, Zawinul and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Alison Rayner Quintet: A Magic Life

Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Alison Rayner | Steve Lodder

Is music stronger than magic a young boy asked Alison Rayner? And here's one answer: a gorgeous album synthesising mood,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Iro Haarla: Ante Lucem

Trygve Seim | Ulf Krokfors | Norrlands Operans Symfoniorkester | Jukka lissakkila | Karin Eriksson | Mika Kallio | Iro Haarla | Hayden Powell

Third Stream music ain't what it used to be – it's so much better, so much more organic, as if...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Black String: Mask Dance

Min Wang Hwang | Aram Lee | Yoon Jeong Heo | Jean Oh

Tradition in Korean music extends further back in time than any equivalent continuous practices in Western music. As such, the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Cyrus Chestnut: Natural Essence

Cyrus Chestnut | Lenny White | Buster Williams

This is one of those records that you can be playing in a room on your own and then suddenly...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Horace Silver: 14 Février 1959

Junior Cook | Blue Mitchell | Louis Hayes | Horace Silver | Gene Taylor

Coming hard on the heels of the Zurich studio session shared with Sonny Rollins and reviewed in Jazzwise 210, this...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

MU: Of Strings and Bridges

MU is the diverse Italian duo of guitarist Adriano Lanzi and cellist Federica Vecchio blending a quirky Canterburylike pastoral prog...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Ramsey Lewis: Them Changes

Morris Jennings | Ramsey Lewis | Phil Upchurch | Cleveland Eaton

One of the great soul jazz pianists in funky electric mode at a very good live session at the Depot,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Tina May with the Steve Plews Trio: Telling Jokes

Gavin Barras | Steve Plews | Tina May | Johnny Hunter

Any album which takes as its inspiration the late, great Mark Murphy's stunning 2007 Verve recording Love Is What Stays...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017