Jeff Williams: The Listener

Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John Hébert | John O'Gallagher

Jeff Williams’ sensitive cymbals and light-touch pulse reflect four decades of drumming with the high and mighty and a CV...

Reviewed by Mike Hobert in issue: July/2013

Bob James: Feel Like Making LIVE!

Billy Kilson | Bob James | Michael Palazollo

Back in 2000, James’ reputation covered so many bases that he was the headliner at Jazz FM's 10th birthday party,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022

Dave Brubeck: Live in Europe

Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Bob McCracken | Cozy Cole | Earl Hines | Jack Teagarden | Louis Armstrong | Marty Napoleon | Sid Catlett | Trummy Young

Originally on Columbia and supplemented here with a 1956 session, this is the 1958 classic Desmond/Wright/Morello quartet on one if...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Kenny Barron: At The Piano

Kenny Barron

Sad to say, I never previously caught up with this debut solo album, even in a previous CD edition. Compared...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Rome & Copenhagen 1969

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

1969 and Miles Davis was dancing to a different drum. Having completed recordings that ultimately became In A Silent Way,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2010

Amina Figarova Sextet: Twelve

A journeying Azerbaijani pianist who recently moved from Holland to New York and here alongside her excellent flautist partner Bart...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Dave Brubeck: Brandenburg Gate Revisited

Not in the same league as Bossa Nova USA, this features the quartet plus an orchestra playing arrangements by Howard...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2015

Dave Brubeck: At Wilshire-Ebell

The original Fantasy album of Brubeck playing to enthusiastic college crowds was reissued a year or two back on Fresh...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Opus 5: Pentasonic

Alex Sipiagin | Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski | Donald Edwards | Seamus Blake

The co-operative quintet's second album seethes and surges through tricky harmonies, zips from hard-boiled swing to soulful beats, and gives...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2013

Hector Quartet: Uncharted

Chris Gale | Chris Wallace | Jeff McLeod | Ted Quinlan

A Canadian collective with cool associations (the Breckers, Dave Holland), Uncharted is their debut, if now one from a rather...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2021