Laurence Hobgood: Tesseterra

Corin Lee | Dorothy Lawson | Jared Schonig | Kip Jones | Laurence Hobgood | Matthew Clohesy | Ralph Harris

‘Third stream nouveau’ they're calling Tesseterra – though main man Laurence Hobgood both willingly owns and gently resists that appellation...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2019

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Remember Me, My Dear

David James | Gordon Jones | Jan Garbarek | Rogers Covey-Crump | Steven Harrold

This concert from the farewell tour of the Garbarek/Hilliard collaboration differs from the three previous albums, Officium (1993), Mnemosyne (1998),...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Al Cohn/Dexter Gordon: True Blue/Silver Blue

Al Cohn | Barry Harris | Blue Mitchell | Dexter Gordon | Louis Hayes | Sam Jones | Sam Noto

Proper Gordon fans who remember the heyday of ‘The Chase’, his scintillating tenor battle with Wardell Gray, should well rejoice...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

Charlie Rouse: Yeah!

Art Taylor | Billy Gardner | Charlie Rouse | Dave Bailey | Gildo Mahones | Peck Morrison | Reggie Workman

For all you stargazers and UFO watchers out there scanning the heavens you might be interested to know that, in...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2016

Thelonious Monk: The Centennial Edition: Paris 1954

Gerard Dave Pochonet | Jean-Louis Viale | Jean-Marie Ingrand | Thelonious Monk

We’ve known forever that Monk’s first foreign trip was to the 1954 Paris Jazz Fair, and that his initial unaccompanied...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Carol Saboya: Belezas: Music of Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento

Adolfo | Carol Saboya | Dave Liebman | Hendrik Meurkens | Jorge Helder | Rafael Barata | Spiewak

It had to happen eventually that someone would re-harmonise ‘Giant Steps’. The switch here is that, while retaining the melody,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013

Solstice: Food for Thought

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Jez Franks | John Turville | Tori Freestone | Will Glaser

Solstice lay before you such a tasting menu of musical treats, it's hard to know where to begin: Jez Franks'...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021

Julian Lage: Speak To Me

Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage | Kris Davis | Levon Henry | Patrick Warren

Over the years since he was discovered as a 12 year-old prodigy, gigs with Gary Burton, John Zorn and Charles...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2024

Eric Gale: Part Of You/Touch Of Silk

Allen R. Toussaint | Anthony Jackson | Arthur Blythe | Bernadette Randle | Charles Earland | David Barard | David Grusin | Eric Gale | Gary Brown | Grover Washington Jr

What's not to love about Eric Gale? Every student guitarist should disappear into a deep dark hole with his releases...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Marcus Miller: Renaissance

As a musician with a producer's ear, Miller has always been able to find the right combination of singers and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015