Various Artists: The Magic and Mystery of the Piano Trio Ballads and Lullabies

Kari Ikonen | Edgar Knecht | Helge Lien | Stefan Aeby | Eivind Austad

For jazz to survive, it must find a place in people's lives. Part of the success of Kind of Blue...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015

Sax Gordon: In the Wee Small Hours

Rooted in the Chicago blues, tenor saxophonist gets some McGriff grooves motoring along with Alberto Marsico's B3 in a classic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018

Eric Reed: Groovewise

Ben Williams | Gregory Hutchinson | Seamus Blake | Eric Reed

Back in the 1990s, Eric Reed was a fairly regular visitor to the UK. Sadly, some 20 years later, we...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: Complete 1956-57 Studio Sessions

Dizzy's finest mid-1950s albums World Statesman, In Greece and Birks Works plus bonuses, sensibly packaged together, competing with Verve's now...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2015

Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen: World of Glass

Terje Isungset | Arve Henriksen

We think of glass as something we see, or rather see through, but anyone who has rubbed a finger along...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2015

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Oliv & Familie

Brian Smith | Maggie Nicols | Nik Bryce | Derek Bailey | Trevor Watts | John Stevens | Pepi Lemer | Dave Holland | Norma Winstone | Peter Lemer

These four tracks from the SME, focal point of the British 1960s avant-garde, can be divided into two pairs. The...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2015

Javon Jackson: Expression

McLenty Hunter | Orrin Evans | Corcoran Holt | Javon Jackson

For whatever reason, Javon Jackson has never really made the A lists of contemporary tenor players. Maybe it's his sound,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Enrico Intra/Enrico Pieranunzi: Bluestop Live

A piano duet by two of Italy's finest protagonists of the instrument recorded live in Milan including interpretations of pieces...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Ananda Gari: T-Duality

Tim Berne | Ananda Gari | Michael Formanek | Rez Abbasi

The influential alto saxophonist Tim Berne is prominently featured here in a quartet led by a young Italian drummer Ananda...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Christian Wallumrød: Pianokammer

Christian Wallumrød

But is it jazz? That's a question that many ‘jazz’ releases might draw nowadays from the more trad-minded listener and,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2015