Confluence: Chroniques Terrestres

André Jaume | Christian Lete | Denis Van Hecke | Didier Levallet | Jean Guérin | Jean Querlier | Philippe Petit | Yves Herwan-Chotard

If you had to take a blindfold test, how often could you identify which side of the Atlantic a piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016

Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live

Dave Brubeck | Tony Bennett

While one track from this 1962 Bennett/Brubeck White House summit (‘That Old Black Magic’) had previously been issued on record,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2013

Return To Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

Billy Cobham | Jan Hammer | Jerry Goodman | John McLaughlin | Rick Laird

The Columbia years were curious ones for RTF: Romantic Warrior remains the apogee of grandiloquent fusion statements, with all members...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013

Chet Baker: It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker

These landmark 1950s Riverside albums have been issued, reissued, mastered and remastered, and packaged and repackaged countless times over the...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2021

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet: In a World of Mallets

Austin Johnson | Dave Potter | Jason Marsalis | Will Goble

The youngest Marsalis brother is better known as a drummer, but being a member of that multi-talented family it should...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom

Alex Han | Christian Scott | Corey Fonville | Elena Pinderhughes | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields | Weedie Braimah

An album that's in hindsight a watershed moment because of its recording date. The multi-award winning trumpeter Christian Scott and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Dead Composers Club: Chopin Project

If they could hear this straight non-classical jazz quartet, co-led by saxophonist Noah Preminger and drummer Rob Garcia, certain dead...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

John Di Martino: Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

The compositions of Ellington's Sweet Pea survive an amiably personalised mainstream treatment from veteran jazz pianist Di Martino and his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Lizz Wright: Holding Space: Lizz Wright Live in Berlin

Ben Zwerin | Bobby Ray Sparks II | Chris Bruce | Ivan Edwards | Lizz Wright

When, during the pandemic, Lizz Wright found the time to listen back to some previous live dates, she was particularly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2022

Oscar Pettiford: Complete Big Band Studio Recordings

The two-volume In Hi-Fi set of Pettiford's orchestra, with creative charts by Gigi Gryce and Lucky Thompson, appeared on CD...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016