El Nino Machuca: Searching Your Youth

Pacho Machuca is a Seville-born guitarist with a good touch to go with his taste for joining up the languages...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Orquesta Failde: Failde Con Tumbao

Adrián Peña | Alejandro Falcón | Andy Cantera | Ethiel Failde | Federico Britos | Julito Padrón | Katerina Pérez | Lucio Carriera | Manuel Alejandro Acosta | Mario Rodríguez,

Orquesta Failde is a Havana-based group blessed with God-given talent and state-nurtured skill and fired by a passion for danzón...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2020

Willie Jones III Sextet: Plays the Max Roach Songbook Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Dezron Douglas | Eric Reed | Jeremy Pelt | Stacy Dillard | Steve Davis | Willie Jones III

One of the hardest-swinging drummers on the New York scene, Jones is probably best known for his lengthy stint with...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2014

Lem Winchester: New Faces At Newport/A Tribute To Clifford Brown

Lem Winchester

Don't know about nowadays, but the vibraphone was once regarded as the most difficult instrument to record; the sound of...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013

Joey Alexander: Countdown

Chris Potter | Dan Chmielinski | Joey Alexander | Larry Grenadier | Ulysses Owens Jr Owens Jr

The jazz piano wünderkind Joey Alexander is a protégé of Wynton Marsalis and has been feted by Herbie Hancock. On...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2016

Alexis Cuadrado: A Lorca Soundscape

Alexis Cuadrado | Claudia Acuña | Dan Tepfer | Gilmar Gomes | Mark Ferber | Miguel Zenón

This recording is a prime example of why we reviewers have such problems coming up with a final ‘Year’s Ten...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013

John Coltrane: Four Classic Albums

You could hardly go wrong compiling any non-Prestige Coltrane and calling it Four Classic Albums. Here, if the personnel details...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Ken Vandermark & Michael Snow: Duol

Ken Vandermark | Michael Snow

Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow's most famous works include the avant-garde classics Wavelength, from 1967, and 1964's New York Eye and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2018

Jacob Sacks: Fishes

This new high performance quintet recording from Sacks, a pianist-composer from Michigan, includes saxophonists Tony Malaby and Ellery Eskelin, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 with Greg Osby: The Off-Off Broadway Guide To Synergism

Aaron Diehl | Greg Osby | Russell Hall | Tyshawn Sorey

Two offs might make an on… or alternatively, it could be twice as off. Which means music that is doubly...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023