Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um: The Stereo and Mono Versions

Booker Ervin | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Eric Dolphy | Horace Parlan | Jimmy Knepper | John Handy | Shafi Hadi | Ted Curson | Willie Dennis

Ah Um was widely acknowledged as Mingus's best release up to that point (Blues And Roots was recorded earlier but...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Curtis Fuller: Down Home

Al Hood | Chip Stephens | Curtis Fuller | Keith Oxman | Ken Walker | Todd Reid

Curtis Fuller accepted an invitation to record with the Mile High City's top cats last summer and this enjoyable session...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2012

BaBaZuLa: Hayvan Gibi

Mehmet Levent Akman | Osman Mura Ertel | Periklis Tsoukala | Ümit Adakale

In the time of Covid-19, this might be as close as you'll get to a genuine, flesh-and-blood show – a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2020

Jaco Pastorious: Word Of Mouth

Chuck Findley | Don Alias | Herbie Hancock | Howard Johnson | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Jaco Pastorious | John Clark | Michael Brecker | Mike Gibbs

One of the era's great albums: and not just because of Pastorious' bravura playing, of which of course there's plenty,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Jan Akkerman: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

Brown Hill | Coen Molenaar | Eric Vloeimans | Jan Akkerman | Marijn van den Berg | Shockwave | Wilbrand Meischke

A double-header of live CD and concert DVD, Akkerman fans will enjoy this run through of the illustrious guitar man's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2014

Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio: Bridges

Amir ElSaffar | Brad Shepik | Chris Komer | Jamey Haddad | Jamie Baum | Jeff Hirshfield | John Escreet | Navin Chettri | Sam Sadigurksy | Zack Lober

Lien's trio have been tottering on the brink of making an album that actually builds on, rather than equals, Hello...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling

Badal Roy | Cecil McBee | David Lee | Geeta Vashi | George Barron | James Mtume | Joe Beck | Lonnie Liston Smith | Sonny Morgan

Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Harry Connick Jr: Every Man Should Know

Harry Connick Jr

Presenting 12 self-penned songs for which he also wrote the arrangements, this latest from the singer-songwriter offers a little bit...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013

Shahin Novrasli: Bayati

Ari Hoenig | Nathan Peck | Shahin Novrasli

Novrasli was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1977 and by the age of three it was clear he was a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2014

Carl Perkins: Introducing Carl Perkins

Having overcome polio, Perkins’ dazzling keyboard brilliance was itself overcome by narcotic addiction, but these 1950s sessions find him in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2016