Jonathan Kreisberg: Wave Upon Wave

Led by guitarist and composer Kreisberg and featuring British New York-based saxophonist Will Vinson, drummer Colin Stranahan and pianist Kevin...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love

Bobby Bradford | David Murray | Gregory Porter | Jaribu Shahid | Macy Gray | Marc Cary | Nasheet Waits

A new Murray quartet is always something of an event given the illustrious nature of the precedents, and this latest...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

trioTrio/Sheila Jordan: trioTrio Meets Sheila Jordan

David Ambrosio | Jacob Sacks | Sheila Jordan | Vinnie Sperrazza

You wait ages for a new record from the great Sheila Jordan, and along come two at once. Obviously, the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2022

Keith Loftis: Simply, Loftis

Dallas-born saxophonist Loftis, who's locked into a tried-and-tested modernism, is a mainstay of the Roy Hargrove band and the trumpeter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Terje Rypdal & The Chasers: Blue

Audun Kleive | Bjorn Kjellemyr | Terje Rypdal

You can hear the Hedvig Mollestad Trio purring at this reissue: as ever this is an ECM no frills revisit,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019

Marty Paich: Four Classic Albums

Paich's work has been reissued in a scattershot way lately, reviewed in this column on CDs from Verse, Warner Jazz,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Bill Laurance: Swift

Achilles Liarmakopoulos | Bill Laurance | Christiana Liberis | Curtis Stewart | Henry Flory | Irena Momchilova | Kallie Ciechomski | Maria Im | Maria Jeffers | Matt McLaughlin

Keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance, an integral founding and current member of Snarky Puppy yet increasingly stepping out as a...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2015

Benjamin Croft: 10 Reasons To…

Andy Davies | Benet McLean | Benjamin Croft | Henry Thomas | Mario Castronari | Peter Miles | Saleem Raman | Tristan Maillot

Croft sounds like an original, adept at working with artists as diverse as Lesley Garrett and The Platters. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2019

Jimmy Smith: Bashin' – The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith/Plays Fats Waller

Jimmy Smith

This was the Big One. Since 1956, ‘The Incredible One’ had achieved all he possibly could during a busy eight-year...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Roberto Fonseca: Yo

Alex Kelly | Assane Mboup | Baba Sissoko | Damien Francisco Nueva | Etienne Mbappe | Fatoumata Diawara | Faudel Amil | Felipe Cabrera | Joel Hierrezuelo | Munir Hossn

While the sight of the Cuban pianist stripped to the waist may have echoes of Voodooera D'Angelo, this is not...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012