Jesper Thilo Quartet: Live At JazzCup

Daniel Franck | Frands Rifbjerg | Jesper Thilo | Søren Kristiansen

Thilo is the doyen of Danish saxophonists, a vastly experienced player who, for 25 years or more, was a standout...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2023

Brad Mehldau Trio: The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001

Brad Mehldau | Jorge Rossy | Larry Grenadier

Career retrospectives such as this usually come much later in an artist's life, and this seven CD box set includes...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2012

Duck Baker Trio: Amnesia in Trastevere

UK guitarist Richard ‘Duck’ Baker transmutes blues and country fingerpicking to a swing jazz situation in trio with brilliantly diverse...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Adelbert Tóth: Pronouncements 1992

Adelbert Tóth

Before each concert the Hungarian-American keyboardist Adelbert ‘The Behemoth’ Tóth was fond of reciting these ringing words from the Book...

Reviewed by Art Slezak in issue: September/2018

Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane

Sabu Toyozumi | Yuji Takahashi

This latest batch of releases from Lithuanian label NoBusiness (as part of their ongoing partnership with Japanese imprint Chap Chap)...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2023

Mats/Morgan Band: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jasen Weaver | Jason Marsalis | Oscar Rossignoli

Swedish keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren once toured with Zappa and their funky cocktail of prog and jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Jeanette Köhn and Swedish Radio Choir: New Eyes on Baroque

Eva Kruse | Gustaf Sjökvist | Jeanette Köhn | Johan Norberg | Jonas Knutsson | Nils Landgren | Swedish Radio Choir

Purists, look away now. Purcell, Handel and Bach weren't jazzers and didn't compose with off-the-cuff excursions on the modern trombone...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2014

Joonsam: A Door

Aaron Parks | Ben Monder | Chung Eun Han | Joonsam | Nate Wood | Ralph Alessi | Yeahwon Shin | Yvonnick Prene

Joonsam might sound like a typically quirky moniker for a contemporary jazz ensemble but it's actually the first name of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Lafayette Harris: Swingin’ Up In Harlem

Lafayette Harris | Lewis Nash | Peter Washington

Born in Baltimore in 1963, Harris studied with Kenny Barron and made it to New York in the mid-1980s. He...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band: Santa Monica 1960

Al Cohn | Alan Raph | Bill Holman | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Donovan | Buddy Clark | Conte Candoli | Don Ferrara | Gene Allen | Gene Quill

Mulligan always seemed to make his bigger bands – this is a 13-piece, Sims added – sound like a small...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012