Mark Masters Ensemble: Everything You Did: The Music of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
The mutual love affair between Steely Dan and jazzers has flourished for decades, and while Masters has previously recorded projects...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2013
Alex Goodman Quintet: Bridges
Young, suited and booted Canadian guitarled group looking to bring back slim ties, along with their mix of Bach, east...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018
Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio: Bridges
Lien's trio have been tottering on the brink of making an album that actually builds on, rather than equals, Hello...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018
Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Iberico
Jazz and Spanish rhythms have connections that date back to (and probably way beyond) Jelly Roll Morton and New Orleans...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011
José James: Lean On Me
James's recent foray into FM-friendly contemporary R&B has yielded mixed results and at times the more explicitly commercial slant of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018
Youn Sun Nah: She Moves On
Brad Jones | Dan Rieser | Jamie Saft | Marc Ribot | Youn Sun Nah
This latest studio album from the South Korean vocalist Youn Sun Nah is marked by a new band – it...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017
Neil Cowley Trio: The Face of Mount Molehill
Evan Jenkins | Leo Abrahams | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan
For pianist-composer Neil Cowley, improvisation has always been a bit of fun in a live situation but an artistic no-go...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012
Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions
Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner
Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021
Kyle Eastwood: Timepieces
Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Ernesto Simpson | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins
If there is an assumption that having a big celebrity dad gives him an advantage on others regardless of merit,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015
Cyrus Chestnut: Midnight Melodies
Curtis Lundy | Cyrus Chestnut | Victor Lewis
The ever-expanding Smoke Jazz Club series, all recorded live on the club's Broadway premises, provides a valuable window on the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
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