Omar Sosa: Promise

Molla Sylla | Julio Barreto | Paolo Fresu | Childo Thomas | Leandro Saint-Hill | Omar Sosa

This live group album follows the recent solo piano studio set, Senses, and underlines Sosa's idiomatic range in no uncertain...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Ahmad Jamal featuring Yusef Lateef: Live At The Olympia

Manolo Badrena | Ahmad Jamal | Yusef Lateef | Reginald Veal | Herlin Riley

First thing to notice is that you may have part of this recording already, if you bought one version of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2014

Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums Byrd's Word/Byrd's Eye View/All Night Long/Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill

Frank Foster | Joe Gordon | Doug Watkins | Hank Jones | Mal Waldron | Ray Santisi | Donald Byrd | Jerome Richardson | Kenny Clarke | Paul Chambers

These albums derive from when, very early in his career, Donald Byrd was fast becoming the most recorded jazzman ever....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014

Echo Engine: Windjammer

Adrian Newton | Theo Travis | Daniel Biro | Rob Palmer

Of the core trio, Palmer is best known to jazz audiences for his work with Jon Lloyd and John Law....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014

Bill Jennings: Architect of Soul Jazz

Over 50 tracks by this influential Indianapolis guitarist show why he was revered by the likes of B.B. King and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Herbie Hancock: The Warner Bros. Years (1969-72)

Billy Hart | Julian Priester | Buster Williams | Herbie Hancock | Benny Maupin | Eddie Henderson | Patrick Gleeson

The Warner Bros. Years represent perhaps the most enigmatic period of Hancock's career, his post-Miles response to the changing musical...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2014

Marty Paich: Jazz City Workshop

The arranger swaps his bigger ensembles for a sextet, and plenty of his own piano playing, to romp through a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Jacob Karlzon 3: Shine

Jacob Karlzon | Robert Mehmet Ikiz | Hans Andersson

Well known for his work with singer Viktoria Tolstoy, as a trio leader Swedish pianist Jacob Karlzon shares much more...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2014

Sarah Moule: Songs From The Floating World

Sarah Moule | Simon Wallace | Paul Robinson | Mick Hutton

As on her previous album, A Lazy Kind of Love, vocalist Sarah Moule's artistic focus remains firmly fixed on the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2014

Jaki Byard: The Late Show

Jaki Byard

Jaki's name is still strongly associated with his Mingus period (1962-65), but a recent Byard reissue (reviewed in Jazzwise 180)...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2014