Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion: I'll Be Yours Tonight Live

This fiery, old-skool blues-based jazz singer is onto her fourth album and sounds at home here in a live context...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Andy Galore: Out & About

The veteran electric bassist's punchy jazz-rock fusion debut has an all-star cast with Mike Stern and Oz Noy sharing axe...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Kurt Elling: Passion World

John McLean | Clark Sommers | Kendrick Scott | Kurt Elling | Gary Versace

Album number 11 from Kurt Elling sees the singer casting his stylistic net far and wide, its eclectic song list...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015

Frank Sinatra: Complete studio recordings with Tommy Dorsey

Frank Sinatra

Recorded for RCA Victor in Chicago, Hollywood and New York between 1940 and 1942, at the start of his career,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015

Compay Segundo: Original Album Series

Toots Thielemans | Bill Evans | Elliott Zigmund | Marc Johnson | Eddie Gomez | Larry Schneider | Joe LaBarbera

What with the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club farewell tour and the from-the-vaults-footage that is World Circuit's new Lost and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2016

Theo Jackson: Shoeless and the Girl

A debut from a jazz-ish singer-songwriter from Kent (plus trio and guest soloist Nathaniel Facey) with a sensitive vocal that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

Randy Weston: Four Classic Albums Vol.1 & Vol.2

Benny Green | Wilbur Little | Peck Morrison | Kenny Dorham | Roy Haynes | Melba Liston | Connie Kay | Cecil Payne | Sam Gill | Slide Hampton

One of the great champions of Afro-jazz, or as he himself states more explicitly, African rhythms in jazz, Weston drank...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Kenny Werner: The Melody

Kenny Werner | Johannes Weidenmueller | Ari Hoenig

Werner's virtuosity seemingly knows no bounds, especially in terms of rhythmic experimentation. That's hardly the right word, though, for he...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Ivo Neame: Strata

Pete Judge | Chris Vine | Paul Wigens

Both as bandleader and key sideman in the trio Phronesis, Ivo Neame has more than served notice of his rising...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018

Al Di Meola: Elysium

Barry Miles | Mario Parmisano | Rhani Krija | Al Di Meola | Philippe Saisse | Peter Kaszas

At 60, it's no surprise Di Meola is slowing down, but in his case it's not so much physically as...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015