Eliane Elias: Love Stories

Celso Almeida | Eliane Elias | Marc Johnson | Marcus Texiera

On Love Stories the sirenic power of Eliane Elias's voice, the unexpected twists and turns of her piano reharmonisations, coupled...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Comanda Barabba: Jazz Resistant

An Italian five piece, formed in the late 1990s, perform a mix of originals strongly inspired by Ornette Coleman and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Paolo Fresu & Daniele di Bonaventura: In Maggiore

Daniele di Bonaventura | Paolo Fresu

It's all about the grain of the sound on this disc from trumpeter Paolo Fresu and bandoneonist Daniele di Bonaventura....

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2015

Caroline Scott: Khoalesce

Caroline Scott | Duncan Eagles | John Turville | Kevin Glasgow

Like Lorraine Baker, Scott is a Trinity Laban graduate who has cut her teeth at Oliver’s bar and has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019

Etta James: The Dreamer

Terminally ill at the time of writing, the R&B vocal legend's final album sees her bow out gracefully with old...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Matt Mitchell: førage - The Music of Tim Berne

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell plays piano in Tim Berne's Snakeoil ensemble and clearly knows his leader's music inside out - which is...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: June/2017

Various Artists: Ska: 40 Jamaican Rude Boy Classics

An excellent cross section of Ska from 1963-6 with many more than the usual suspects but not forgetting Don Drummond...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Russell Gunn & The Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra: The Sirius Mystery

Post-bop trumpeter Russell Gunn leads an explosive contemporary big band on the second album in an arcane conceptual trilogy dedicated...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Renee Rosnes: Written In The Rocks

Bill Stewart | Peter Washington | Renee Rosnes | Steve Nelson | Steve Wilson

It’s 30 years already since Canadian-born Rosnes descended on the New York scene, making an immediate impact with, among others,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home

HBR Studio Symphony Orchestra | Jimmy Scott | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Kenny Barron | Michael Valerio | Peter Erskine

Recorded in 2009 just five years before his death, its creation the subject of a documentary of the same name,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017