Various Artists: Jazz – 10 Classic Albums

Miles Davis | Thelonious Monk | Chet Baker | Billie Holiday | Herbie Hancock | Stan Getz | Count Basie | Charlie Mingus | Duke Ellington | Dave Brubeck

Long long ago Tony Blackburn proudly revealed that he didn’t like jazz before adding that he was a huge fan...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2016

Ferit Odman: Dameronia With Strings

Terell Stafford | Danny Grissett | Ferit Odman | Peter Washington | David O’Rourke

Thirty-four-year-old Odman is a new name to me, but this stalwart of the Turkish scene already has two previous CDs...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016

Ken Fowser: Standing Tall

First release as leader for the young tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser with an unpretentiously derivative New York-based quintet with compositions...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Mike Westbrook & Company: The Uncommon Orchestra A Bigger Show Live

Mathew North | Joe Carnell | Mike Brewer | Billy Bottle | Gary Bayley | Stewart Stunnell | Dave Holdsworth | Sarah Dean | Martine Waltier | Coach York

It shouldn’t be allowed. At an age when they should be revelling in their Freedom Passes, the Westbrooks refuse to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016

Kenny Burrell: The Road To Love

Justo Almario | Clayton Cameron | Barbara Morrison | Tom Ranier | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Kenny Burrell | Tony Dumas

Burrell, among the most prolific of recording artists and a true virtuoso of the jazz guitar, has been heard less...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2016

Dollar Brand: Plays Sphere Jazz

Jonas Gwangwa | Hugh Masekela | Kippie Moeketsi | Makaya Ntshoko | Johnny Gertze | Dollar Brand

A fascinating peek into the early South African career of Brand, aka Abdullah Ibrahim, these recordings precede by three years...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016

Avishai Cohen: Into the Silence

Bill McHenry | Nasheet Waits | Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai | Eric Revis

The bushy bearded trumpeter from New York is the lesser known of the Israeli jazz Avishai Cohens. But that might...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon a Star

Petra Haden | Bill Frisell | Eyvind Kang | Rudy Royston | Thomas Morgan

As with his previous 2014 release Guitar in the Space Age, Bill Frisell continues to mine 1950s-60s popular music culture...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

David S. Ware: Apogee/Birth Of A Being

Cooper Moore | David S. Ware | Marc Edwards

Although the substantial body of work that Ware amassed in the latter part of his life more than suffices to...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+ Evolution

Esperanza Spalding | Kimberly Davis | Karriem Riggins | Justin Tyson | Nadia Washington | Katriz Trinidad | Celeste Butler | Fred Martin | Matthew Stevens | Corey King

“Nobody has to know the moral of my show,” Esperanza Spalding sings on ‘Funk the Fear’, and fusillades of fresh...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2016