Chick Corea: Trilogy

Chick Corea has been a part of the jazz furniture since the 1960s and it is perhaps tempting to take...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2017

Joel Harrison 7: Search

Christian Howes | Clarence Penn | Dana Leong | Donny McCaslin | Gary Versace | Joel Harrison | Stephan Crump

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

Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady | Brian Bromberg | Dave Weckl | Greg Phillinganes | Gregory Porter | Harvey Mason | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa | Roy Hargrove

That the Slovakian-born guitarist is only 17 and a precociously gifted technician is the hook here. It starts promisingly with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Da Lata: Fabiola

Carl Smith | Davide Giovanni | Dennis Rollins | Diabel Cissokoho | Ernie McKone | Fabricio FBC | Finn Peters | Franck | Jandira Silva | Jason Yarde

The British outfit that brought a vibrant, contemporary slant to Brazilian music throughout the 1990s return with an album that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari: The Marrow With Fathieh Honari

Fathieh Honari | Gordon Grdina | Hamin Honari | Hank Roberts | Mark Helias

Although the oud is one of the emblematic instruments of the Middle East, it has been deployed to good effect...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024

Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs

Christian Flohr | Johann Weiss | Lorenz Hargassner | Sebastian Deufel

Like all of you, I like to think I take my jazz seriously. But you know what? Sometimes I just...

Reviewed by Nina Fortune in issue: April/2023

Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Al Hendrickson | Ann Graham | Art Lund | Benny Goodman | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Benny Goodman Quartet | Benny Goodman Trio | Betty Vann | Billie Holiday | Buddy Greco

Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024

DoomCannon: Renaissance

Daniel Rogerson | DoomCannon | Jordan Mackampa | Kaidi Akinnibi | Lex Amor | Marsha Skinns | Natalia Senior Brown | Oscar Ogden | Saskia Horton | Sienna Hamilton

Dominic Canning, otherwise known as DoomCannon, is a man of many parts, all of which interlock convincingly on this sophomore...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2022

Dieter Ilg: B-A-C-H

Dieter Ilg | Patrice Heral | Rainer Böhm

Any jazz piano trio that chooses to take on the repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach must surely know that ultimately...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017

Naqsh Duo (Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi): Narrante

Golfam Khayam | Mona Matbou Riahi

Guitar and clarinet: now there's a great jazz pairing. Didn't bebop – sort of – come out of Charlie Christian...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016