Junior Mance: Three Classic Albums Plus

The bluesy, swinging piano of Junior Mance is featured on three and seven-ninths of his trio albums from 1959-61, all...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Gary Willis/Albert Bover/Gergo Borlai: Retro

Albert Bover | Gary Willis | Gergo Borlai

If the bass guitar-led solo album has been cursed since its emergence in the mid-1980s by the diminishing returns of...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: April/2013

Georgie Fame: Lost In A Lover's Dream

Georgia Fame | Mario Mavrin | Prmož Grašic

The last time I heard Georgie Fame's voice he was belting out Cole Porter at the 2010 London Jazz Festival,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Luca Manning with Fergus McCreadie: When The Sun Comes Out

A rising vocal star in his native Glasgow, Luca Manning has an affecting sensitive vocal lying somewhere between Chet Baker...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Dave Hamblett: Light at Night

Alex Munk | Calum Gourlay | Dave Hamblett | Ivo Neame | Joe Wright | Josh Arcoleo

Some of the brightest young sparks to have come out of jazz classes at the Royal Academy in recent years...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013

Babelfish: Chasing Rainbows

Barry Green | Brigitte Beraha | Chris Laurence | Paul Clarvis

According to the liner notes, this second release from the quartet named for the fictional translating animal in The Hitchhiker's...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Makaya McCraven: Universal Beings

Anna Butterss | Ashley Henry | Brandee Younger | Carlos Niño | Daniel Casimir | Dezron Douglas | Jeff Parker | Josh Johnson | Junius Paul | Makaya McCraven

McCraven’s second album proper of ‘organic beats music’ almost incidentally internationalises the new London scene, bringing its figureheads into a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

The Lie Detectors: Part III: Secret Unit

This duo of New York-based guitarist/Zorn collaborator Eyal Maoz and London-based drummer Asaf Sirkis lay down stimulating doses of free-jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

Jimi Tenor: Saxentric

This ultra-hip Finnish multi-instrumentalist is always worth a listen and this album, with its distinctively quirky mix of Afrobeat, lounge...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Tied & Tickled Trio feat Billy Hart: La Place Demon

Billy Hart | Markus Archer | Micha Acher

By no means as well known as they should be, Tied & Tickled Trio has a proven skill in combining...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2012