Paul Bley Trio: Blood

Barry Altschul | Mark Levinson | Paul Bley

The death in January of Canadian pianist Paul Bley, at the age of 83, marked the passing of yet one...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2016

Les McCann: Live in Hollywood, New York and San Francisco

What a driving, swinging, inventive pianist McCann was, and how he connected with an audience! It's all on show here...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016

Swedish Mobilia/Luca Aquino: Did You Hear Something?

An Italian guitar (Andreas Bolzoni) trio featuring Miles-influenced trumpeter Aquino as guest, in a more abstract, contemporary post-rock twist on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013

Omar Sosa & NDR Big Band: es:sensual

Ernesto Simpson | Ingmar Heller | Marcio Doctor | Omar Sosa

There is an argument to say that Sosa, talented as he is, has over-recorded in the past decade or so....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018

George Duke: DreamWeaver

Allen Kaplan | BeBe Winans | Chill | Christian McBride | Daniel Higgins | Erik Zobler | Everette Harp | Gary Grant | George Duke | Gorden Campbell

By his own admission, this is Duke’s “most honest” album in years, born as it is from the tragic loss...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Mike Westbrook: Starcross Bridge

Mike Westbrook

Wait 40 years for a solo piano recording from Mike Westbrook, then, stone me, two come along virtually at once....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2018

Nikki Yeoh: Solo Gemini

Nikki Yeoh

Circumstances knocked Yeoh off-course in 2004, when her son's difficult birth and its aftermath interrupted a diverse and prolific career....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2016

Sarah Vaughan: Birdland: Live in New York

Rather like the Parker covered above, these airshots are quite a trial to listen to, especially when, by 1952, Vaughan...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Randy Weston: Destry Rides Again/Little Niles

Two of Weston's quirky late-50s albums packaged as a single CD, with Little Niles the celebrated standout, for the title...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2011

Horace Silver Quintet With Art Farmer: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

Not quite what it says on the tin. This would have proved to be much better focused had it been...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2018