Dave Brubeck Trio featuring Cal Tjader: Complete Recordings

Al Harewood | Art Taylor | George Tucker | Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Paul Chambers | Stanley Turrentine | Tommy Flanagan

This is a welcome reissue and that makes you wonder why no-one had thought of doing it before. This is...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018

Chick Corea Akoustic Band with John Patitucci & Dave Weckl: Live

Chick Corea | Dave Weckl | John Patitucci

This album was already in the works at the time of Corea’s sudden and unexpected death on 9 February 2021....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Dave Young/Terry Promane: Octet Vol. 2

This cool-school Canadian octet, led by experienced bassist Dave Young and trombonist Terry Promane, offer easy going interpretations of tunes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Dave Brubeck Quartet: At the Sunset Center, Carmel 1955

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Joe Dodge | Paul Desmond

The release of this CD presents, for the first time ever, the complete concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet at...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Kansas Smitty’s: We’re Not In Kansas Any More

Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Dylan Jones | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Laura Jurd | Will Cleasby

The opening ‘Bokeh’ is an immediate signal that this fifth studio album intends to move a long way from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2022

Dave Tucker and Pierpaolo Martino: Melophobia

Dave Tucker | Pierpaolo Martino

Of all the myriad duo formats in jazz and improvised music, the melding of electric guitar and acoustic double bass...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023

Dave Douglas Quintet: Time Travel

Dave Douglas | Jon Irabagon | Linda Oh | Matt Mitchell | Rudy Royston

If you enjoyed last year's Be Still, then Time Travel should rock your boat because the music comes from the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013

Dave Liebman and Phil Markowitz: Manhattan Dialogues

Dave Liebman | Phil Markowitz

While the perspicacious Liebman travels the world lecturing, performing and giving master classes, he leaves countless CDs in his wake,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2014

Dave Brubeck: Bossa Nova USA

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

The classic Brubeck Quartet in 1962 with one of its most acclaimed discs, this is a good value reissue with...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: Weightless

Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tom Challenger

Riff Raff emerged out of North London’s Loop Collective and E17 Jazz, for whom Manington was an original member. Their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025