Album Interview: Jamie Saft: The New Standard

Jamie Saft | Bobby Previte | Steve Swallow

Pianist/keyboardist Jamie Saft is pretty much the quintessence of the iconoclastic downtown New York jazz musician, if such a thing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Hampton Hawes: Three Classic Albums Plus

The 3LP All Night Session has had numerous reissues (notably from Definitive) and here it's paired with nine-tenths of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Dorothy Ashby: Four Classic Albums Plus

If jazz harp is your thing, then this is a cornucopia of delight, especially a session with Frank Wess, featuring...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Grover Washington Jr.: All My Tomorrows/Soulful Strut/Breath of Heaven

Three final albums from Washington, who was beginning to emerge from typecasting to explore all areas of jazz before his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature

An East coast-based guitarist, mentored by recently departed world jazz pioneer Yusef Lateef, and her quintet (featuring viola) has a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Sonar Static: Motion

Swiss-Based tritone guitarist Stephan Thelen is a dedicated King Crimson-ite and with his quartet Sonar, explores hypnotic pattern-based music for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Daniel Szabo: A Song From There

In a trio featuring drummer Peter Erskine, this graceful Hungarian LA-based pianist-composer draws heavily on his east European folk and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Neil Cowley | Evan Jenkins | Rex Horan

As with another widely admired piano trio, The Necks, Neil Cowley Trio tends to get coverage in the jazz media...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Quincy Jones: Four Classic Albums Plus

If you don't have the reissues of This is How I Feel and Great Wide World from Fresh Sound, Pollwinners,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

BEJE: Live at the Fringe

Billed as the best European musicians working in Bristol, this quintet run by Swiss-English saxophonist David Mowat share diverse interests...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014