Christine Tobin: Sailing to Byzantium
In this beautiful collection of songs based on the poetry of WB Yeats, vocalist Christine Tobin has created an unqualified...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2012
Mark Cherrie Quartet: Any Anxious Colour
"The steel pan of course has no particular history in jazz music itself, unlike many other instruments,” explains bandleader and...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2024
Joe Henderson: Multiple
Joe Henderson made many albums over his long and storied career, but there are two that I return to again...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2025
The Oscar Peterson Trio + The Singers Unlimited: In Tune
Despite the excellence of Oscar Peterson’s enormous output on Norman Granz’s Verve label, his playing seemed to reach full maturity...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018
Lalo Schifrin: Man On A Swing OST (Expanded Edition)
Bud Shank | Emil Richards | Howard Roberts | Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin is best known for his thrilling TV and movie soundtracks – Mission: Impossible, Dirty Harry, Enter The Dragon...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023
Joel Harrison 7: Search
The Washington DC guitarist-composer Joel Harrison (and sometime rugged country-blues singer, though not here) has been cooking up his own...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012
Azar Lawrence: The Seeker
Azar Lawrence | Benito Gonzalez | Essiet Okon Essiet | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Nicholas Payton
Of all the post-Coltrane tenor saxophonists, arguably the most outstanding and least recognised must surely be Azar Lawrence. His youthful...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2014
Dezron Douglas: Atalaya
Dezron Douglas | Emilio Modeste | George Burton | Joe Dyson Jr | Melvis Santa
A protége of Jackie McLean, a DownBeat magazine 2019 Rising Star and a performer with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions of Django Reinhardt
There have been numerous attempts to produce box sets that cover the range of Django Reinhardt’s work. Among examples reviewed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2019
Cannonball Adderley/Sérgio Mendes: Cannonball Adderley with Sérgio Mendes & the Bossa Rio Sextet
Strange retitlings and strange bedfellows in the bonus material of these two CDs, but also some fine music. The main...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020
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