Billy Cobham/George Duke Band: Live On Tour In Europe

Excellent work from the 1976 tour, with John Scofield battling it out with the leaders and the propulsive bass of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Carmen McRae: Four Classic Albums

All these four albums have also recently been reissued by Phoenix, in two sets (with Ray Bryant and with Ralph...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Kristian Borring: Urban Novel

Arthur Lea | Mick Coady | Kristian Borring | Jon Scott | Jim Hart

Moving to London in 2005 to study for a postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall, the Danish guitarist-composer Kristian Borring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2014

Tony Lakatos: Standard Time

Rich Harrold | Steve Lehman | Dame Evelyn Glennie | Richard Kass | Ant Law

Though hardly a household name, Tony Lakatos has appeared on over 150 CDs and name-checks the likes of Terri Lyne...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2018

Janette Mason: D'Ranged

Gwyneth Herbert | Janette Mason | Sam Burgess | Vula Malinga | Yolanda Charles | Westley Joesph | Jack Pollitt | Claire Martin | David McAlmont | Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield

I was a huge fan of Janette Mason's first two releases, Din and Tonic (2005) and Alien Left Hand (2009)....

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2014

Benny Goodman: Benny In Brussels

A clone of the Jazz Plaza issue of BG's 1958 World's Fair concert (reviewed in 2010) this similarly suffers from...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Stan Getz & João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Antonio Carlos Jobim | Stan Getz | João Gilberto | Milton Banana | Sebastião Neto | Astrud Gilberto

We're talking Stateside in the early 1960s and in much the same way that The Beatles' first album spawned a...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2014

Nick Levinovsky: Special Opinion

Mitch Stein | Randy Brecker | Bill Evans | Mike Stern | Tom Kennedy | Dave Weckl | Igor Butman | the Moscow Jazz Orchestra | Nick Levinovsky

Here's a project with no side to it. Just straight-ahead, brass rich jazz-rock. The likes of Bill Evans and Mike...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Chico Freeman: Tradition In Transition

Billy Hart | Chico Freeman | Clyde Criner | Wallace Roney | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette

If Eletktra/Musician was one of the key jazz labels of the 1980s, then this is one of the great jewels...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Rubén Blades: Tangos

Carlos Franzetti | Rubén Blades | Leopoldo Federico Orchestra

Panamanian multi-Grammy winner Rubén Blades is a restless polymath: an actor, singer, composer and poet who made his name on...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2014