Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething

Sebastiaan de Krom | Michael Strange | Geoff Gascoyne | Jamie Cullum

This 20th anniversary, limited edition 2LP set represents the first time that Cullum’s Twentysomething, his major label debut and the...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024

Melody Gardot/Philippe Powell: Entre Eux Deux

Melody Gardot | Philippe Powell

The lady quite obviously has talent – and has overcome injuries that threatened to derail her career – but Melody...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Jules Buckley with the Heritage Orchestra and Ghost-Note: The Breaks

John Calvert | Matt Calvert | Adam Betts | Robin Searight | Kamasi Washington | The Heritage Orchestra: Mr Switch | Robert ‘Sput’ Searight | Cory Henry | Rob Gentry | Nate Werth

Regular perusers of YouTube will have seen the benign bearded face of Jules Buckley smiling beatifically amidst the hyper-rapid edits...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Don Rendell Quintet: Space Walk

Peter Shade | Trevor Tompkins | Don Rendell | Stan Robinson | Jack Thorncraft

Space Walk, from the EMI Lansdowne Jazz series, is the first of the much-anticipated British Jazz Explosion series of facsimile...

Reviewed in issue September/2021

Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)

John McLaughlin | Chris Pyne | John Spooner | Henry Lowther | Derek Watkins | Tristan Fry | Alan Branscombe | Dave Holland | Michael Gibbs | Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler, the inimitable Canadian trumpet maestro and quiet legend of post-1960s jazz composition, had been playing all kinds of...

Reviewed in issue September/2021

Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

John Surman | Colin Bates | Alan Skidmore | Don Rendell | Dick Morrissey | Stan Tracey | Mike Taylor | Ken Wheeler | Michael Garrick | New Jazz Orchestra

This two CD or double gatefold LP set takes up where Universal's Impressed Repressed series left off in 2004-5. That...

Reviewed in issue August/2021

Melt Yourself Down: 100% Yes

Adam Betts | Ruth Goller | Kush Gaya | Zands Duggan | Pete Wareham | George Crowley

Melt Yourself Down’s Last Evenings On Earth (2016) seemed to share the apocalyptic, transmuting themes of Shabaka Hutchings’ parallel work...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Madeleine Peyroux: Anthem

Brian MacLeod | Madeleine Peyroux | David Baerwald | Larry Klein | Patrick Warren

That Leonard Cohen is one of Madeleine Peyroux's key musical touchstones is clearly evidenced by her interpretations of ‘Dance Me...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Sod

Jo Jo Molina | Jay Jay York | Rick Kellis | Larry Cal ‘California’ Arnold | Michael Green | ‘Dirty’ Don Phillips | Larry ‘Highme’ Devers

Sod were a band of longhairs from LA who, in the early 1970s, released two, now largely forgotten, albums. The...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

The Hot Sardines: French Fries + Champagne

This sassy gypsy swing band play show tunes, film themes and old blues and something a little more unpredictable: a...

Reviewed in issue August/2016