Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince

Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner | Ronald Bruner Jnr | Ryan Porter | Hadrien Feraud | Cameron Graves | Kamasi Washington

Pianist-vocalist Graves is the first member of ‘The West Coast Get Down’, the collective whence came Kamasi Washington, to make...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Joey DeFrancesco + The People: Project Freedom

Troy Roberts | Joey DeFrancesco | Dan Wilson | Joey Defrancesco | Jason Brown

We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Harold López-Nussa: El Viaje

Ruy Adrián López-Nussa | Ruy Francisco López-Nussa | Harold López-Nussa | Alune Wade | Dreiser Durruthy | Adel González | Mayquel González

It's not about the destination, it's about the journey – or at least it is in the case of Cuban...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Braun Whalum Brown: BWB

This trio of veteran smooth jazz dudes must be able to churn this stuff out in their sleep by now....

Reviewed in issue August/2016

Brian Bromberg: Full Circle

The former Stan Getz sideman/smooth jazz star bassist Brian Bromberg's piccolo bass apes the sound of a guitar throughout this...

Reviewed in issue August/2016

Warren Wolf: Convergence

John Scofield | Christian McBride | Warren Wolf | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Brad Mehldau

The vibraphonist has some really heavyweight company for this, his third US album, including his boss from the Inside Straight...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Tom Tallitsch: Gratitude

An Ohio native, the saxophonist Tom Tallitsch is in the lineage of current mainstream post-bop big tenors and here in...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Kenny Garrett: Do Your Dance

Ronald Bruner | Vernell Brown | McClenty Hunter | Kenny Garrett | Mista Enz | Corcoran Holt | Rudy Bird

Although Garrett has played a fair amount of electric music throughout his lengthy career, notably with Miles Davis in the...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Julian Lage: Arclight

Julian Lage | Scott Colley | Kenny Wolleson

Childhood prodigies rarely soar in their maturity, but Lage, now in his late twenties, is starting to lay down some...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Alfredo Rodriguez: Tocororo

Michel Olivera | Richard Bona | Ariel Bringuez | Ganayva Doraiswamy | Anotnio Lizana | Reinier Elizarde | Alfredo Rodriguez | Ibeyi | Ibrahim Maalouf

Lauded Cuban pianist and composer Rodriguez gives us an album named after the national bird of Cuba, a creature that...

Reviewed in issue May/2016