Polly Gibbons: Many Faces of Love

Anthony Wilson | Christian Howes | James Pearson | Kevin Axt | Polly Gibbons | Ray Brinker | Roger Kellaway | Tamir Hendelman

Hot on the heels of last year's brilliant My Own Company, this new album from vocalist Polly Gibbons presents 12...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015

Food: Mercurial Balm

Christian Fennesz | Eivind Aarset | Iain Ballamy | Nils Petter Molvær | Nils Petter Molvaer | Prakash Sontakke | Thomas Strenen

This is an impressive follow-up to Food's 2010 debut on the ECM label, Quiet Inlet. More ambitious in scope, it...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Amok Amor: We Know Not What We Do

Christian Lillinger | Peter Evans | Petter Eldh | Wanja Slavin

The line-up is an exciting one: the ferociously virtuosic NY-based trumpeter Peter Evans, perhaps best known for his role in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Webster Young: A Quiet Legend – Live in Saint Louis 1961

Chauncey Williams | Freddie Washington | Jodie Christian | John Chapman | John Mixon | Red Anderson | Webster Young

Trumpeter Young rates an entry in Leonard Feather’s first The Encyclopaedia of Jazz but not in subsequent editions. He’s not...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2025

Alicia & Michael Olatuja: Olatuja

Alicia Olatuja | Christian Sands | David Rosenthal | Femi Temowo | Joshua Keitt | Magatte Sow | Michael Olatuja | Obed Calvaire

Although vocalist Alicia and bassist Michael Olatuja are accomplished artists in their own right, their collaborations bring out the best...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024

Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim: Harlem

Abdul Khaliq-Hassan | Christian Sievert | Ed Epstein | Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim | Hasse Poulsen | Hugo Rasmussen | Jacob Andersen | Jamil Westergaard | Karsten Sorensen | Steve Berrios

When he was known as Juan Amalbert and led the Latin Jazz quintet in the 1960s, Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim worked with...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Multiquarium Big Band featuring Biréli Lagrène: Remembering Jaco

André Charlier | Benoît Sourisse | Biréli Lagrène | Claude Egéa | Denis Leloup | Frédéric Borey | Lucas Saint-Cricq | Nicolas Charlier | Peter Erskine | Pierre Drevet

As modern-day bass behemoth Christian McBride once quipped: “There's bass before Jaco, and after Jaco…” and for many low-enders, getting...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/2020

Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan

Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Pepper Addams | Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Yusef Lateef

As far as titles go, nothing could be more appropriate for a character as brilliant and turbulent as Charles Mingus....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024

Half Seas Over

Bringing together the art of folky singer-songwriting and jazz can often bear fruit. But this union of Brooklyn-based pianist Elan...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

George Duke: DreamWeaver

Allen Kaplan | BeBe Winans | Chill | Christian McBride | Daniel Higgins | Erik Zobler | Everette Harp | Gary Grant | George Duke | Gorden Campbell

By his own admission, this is Duke’s “most honest” album in years, born as it is from the tragic loss...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013