E.J. Strickland Quintet: The Undying Spirit

E.J. Strickland | Jaleel Shaw | Linda Oh | Luis Perdomo | Marcus Strickland

Strickland's disciplined and funky quintet get down to business right from the off. ‘The Ride’ introduces a slow burn vamp...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2015

Antonio Farao: Eklektik

Antonio Farao | Biréli Lagrène | Claudia Campagnol | Dario Rosciglione | Didier Lockwood | Enrico Solazzo | Fabiana Rosciglione | Krayzie Bone | Luigi Di Nunzio | Manu Katché

Italian pianist Farao's career to date has seen him swing hard with the likes of Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts and Jack...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017

Alex Bone: Falling on Infinity

Alex Bone | Cory Wong | Joe Lee | Luke Tomlinson | Nile Rodgers | Oliver Mason

Aged just 17, alto saxophonist Alex Bone won the inaugural BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition in 2014,...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Reuben Fowler: Between Shadows

Alex Munk | Andy Greenwood | Brigitte Beraha | Callum Au | Dave Hamblett | Freddie Gavita | George Crowley | George Hogg | Gordon Campbell | Guy Barker

The 23-year-old trumpeter Reuben Fowler’s debut album on the Edition label represents part of his prize for winning the Kenny...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Dave Meder: Unamuno Songs & Stories

The 31-year-old pianist-composer Meder draws on a broad range of influences from classical, ragtime, modernism from Monk to Shearing through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi

Al Foster | Anthony Jackson | Dave Liebman | Masabumi Kikuchi | M'tume | Reggie Lucas | Steve Grossman | Terumasa Hino

The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014

Ryo Fukui: Scenery

A 1976 album by the self-taught Japanese pianist Fukui and his trio, which mainly tackles standards that swing appealingly in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Grant Green: Green Street

Ben Tucker | Dave Bailey | Grant Green

Certain classic Blue Note recordings do not age as well as others and this is an example. Early in his...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Josh Kyle: Possibilities

Geoff Gascoyne | Josh Kyle | Ratyh Sahmins | Tom Cawley

From the very opening bars of Hoagy Carmichael's ‘Stardust’ – not, by any means, an easy song to nail –...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Mark Sutton: Crest Of A Wave

No sleeve notes at all here, just the words, “mellow piano tunes” and that’s certainly no word of a lie...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011