Anat Cohen: Luminosa

Interpreting Brazilian samba and choro classics as well as Flying Lotus and her own originals, the New York-based clarinettist heads...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Yusef Lateef: Four Classic Albums Plus: Jazz Moods/The Music Of Yusef Lateef/The Dreamer/Cry Tender

Frank Gant | Lonnie Hilyer | Oliver Jackson | Curtis Fuller | William Austin | Wilbur Harden | Yusef Lateef | Ernie Farrow | Terry Pollard | Hugh Lawson

Formative chapters in a career that spanned well over one hundred albums as both leader and valued sideman. It has...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015

Olga Konkova: The Goldilocks Zone

Russian pianist Konkova sets her impressionistic classical-influenced piano meditations effectively against Norwegian husband/bassist Per Mathisen and heavyweight John McLaughlin drummer...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IV: Accordion Night

For those not enamoured of the charms of the squeezebox, here's an engaging series of live duets featuring accordion (includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Joe Locke: Love is a Pendulum

Ricardo Rodriguez | Donny McCaslin | Victor Provost | Rosario Giuliani | Joe Locke | Robert Rodriguez | Paul Bollenback | Theo Bleckmann | Terreon Gully

Locke's initial reputation was built on his consummate musicianship and his powerfully cogent uptempo playing. Over the last 15 years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Terri Lyne Carrington: The ACT Years

Gary Thomas | Kevin Eubanks | Greg Osby | Adam Rogers | Jimmy Haslip | Jeff Richman | Herbie Hancock | Greg Kurstin | Bojan Z | Karim Ziad

A curious compilation in that Carrington only recorded two albums as leader for ACT, Jazz Is A Spirit and Structure....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015

Lorenzo Feliciati: Koi

The Italian bass player behind bass duo Twinscapes leads a creative, ambient art-rock ensemble featuring both exdrummers of King Crimson...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Various Artists: CTI Records: The Cool Revolution

Gerry Mulligan | Featuring Freddie Hubbard | Hubert Laws | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Chet Baker | Esther Phillips | Paul Desmond | Stanley Turrentine | Grover Washington | Deodato

Essentially this is a sumptuous re-packaging of the original (and sumptuous) 4CD set that celebrated 40 years of CTI back...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015

Gil Scott-Heron: Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

Charlie Saunders | Gil Scott-Heron | Eddie Knowles | David Barnes

Amid Charles Stewart's lengthy sleeve notes it is easy to miss this declaration by the artist himself: “I am a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

The Printmakers: Westerly

Nikki Iles | Mike Walker | Norma Winstone | Mark Lockheart | Steve Watts | James Maddren

This long-awaited debut recording from The Printmakers could be looked on as a paean to musical friendships. Fittingly dedicated to...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015