Susan Alcorn: Soledad

Michael Formanek | Susan Alcorn

It's wholly fitting that this questing US pedal steel guitarist has chosen to interpret the nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: June/2015

Billy Cobham: Mirror's Image

Ira Coleman | Billy Cobham | Joe Chindamo

A curiosity in that this is one live concert, edited to fit two CD releases, begging the question why couldn't...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015

Chris Hodgkins & Dave Price: Back In Your Own Backyard

Erika Lyons | Dave Price | Chris Hodgkins | Ashley John Long

Here's Hodgkins newly released from his long-term role as director of Jazz Services and back to doing what he always...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2015

Charles Evans: On Beauty

A Baritone sax specialist joins his mentor Dave Liebman on soprano, their dense conversational narratives combining passionately in a suite...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Binker And Moses: Dem Ones

Moses Boyd | Binker Golding

Noted for their work with the likes of Zara McFarlane, Peter Edwards and Denys Baptiste among others, Golding and Boyd...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2015

Tony Scott: Complete Brunswick Sessions

Scott's slightly later quartet with Bill Evans is more famous, but this earlier model with Dick Katz is very fine,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

E.J. Strickland Quintet: The Undying Spirit

Jaleel Shaw | Linda Oh | Luis Perdomo | Marcus Strickland | E.J. Strickland

Strickland's disciplined and funky quintet get down to business right from the off. ‘The Ride’ introduces a slow burn vamp...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2015

Joey Calderazzo: Going Home

It is perhaps easy to overlook the career of Joey Calderazzo since he became an indispensable cog in the Branford...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

New Cool Collective: Electric Monkey Sessions

This is the fiery bop alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman's top notch grooving Dutch eight-piece now onto its 15th album with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Samuel Blaser Quartet: Spring Rain

Russ Lossing | Drew Gress | Gerald Cleaver | Samuel Blaser

Stand back and this might seem like an art music recital that would not be out of place in the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2015