Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee's Feathers

the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Irvin Mayfield

Following love letters to Paris (J'ai Deux Amours) and Mali (Red Earth), for her latest release the great Dee Dee...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Seckou Keita: 22 Strings

Seckou Keita

From the first glorious tumble of notes on ‘The Path of Gabou’, a track about a son's search for his...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2015

Partikel: String Theory

Eric Ford | Carmen Flores | Dave Le Page | Duncan Eagles | Benet Mclean | Mathew Sharp | Max Luthert | Benet McLean

London based trio, Partikel, have been playing together for over six years, including a running regular weekly jam session at...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Dizzy Gillespie: A Musical Safari

This gets the four stars more for the bonus tracks from Dizzy's Electrifying Evening Verve L P, which is a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Tam De Villiers 4tet: Panacea

A French-based guitarist with a band featuring saxophonist David Prez and tasteful Hungarian guest vocalese singer Gabor Winand, this impressive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Carsten Dahl: Bach Goldberg Variations

Carsten Dahl

The bottom left hand corner of the CD case of Dahl's Goldberg Variations reads: ‘Genre: Classical’. It became Denmark's best-selling...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Dave Bailey: The Complete 1 & 2 Feet In The Gutter Sessions

Bailey's sextet sessions for Epic were particularly showcases for the late Clark Terry, who stamps his personality indelibly on this...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

The Ted Howe Jazz Orchestra: Pinnacle

This 13-piece orchestra, led by an LA-based pianist-composer, has a central three-part suite built on symphonic and Ellingtonian forms with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Kamasi Washington: The Epic

Tony Austin | Brandon Coleman | Thundercat | Ryan Porter | Miles Mosley | Patrice Quinn | Ronald Bruner Jr | Cameron Graves | Kamasi Washington

The title is not to be taken lightly. In numbers it translates as: 3CDs; 17 songs; 32-piece orchestra; 20-piece choir;...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Kevin Eubanks Stanley Jordan: Duets

Lewis Wright | Kit Downes

An artful alliance of two of jazz's more accessible guitarists, Duets bears curious comparison to the recently released Brit-based alliance...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2018