Ulysses Owen Jnr Big Band: Soul Conversations
Ulysses Owen's impressive sideman credits range from Terence Blanchard to Kurt Elling, with whom he won a 2010 Grammy for...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2021
Michael Olatuja: Lagos Pepper Soup
New York-based British-Nigerian bassist Michael Olatuja is one of the select musicians from over here who has made it over...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020
Esther Bennett: Home Is Where The Art Is
Duncan Lamont Jr | Esther Bennett | Terence Collie
Esther Bennett describes Home Is Where the Art Is as a ‘labour of love’ and, cliché that that phrase has...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2023
Jim Snidero: Main Street
Fabian Almazan | Jim Snidero | Linda Oh | Rudy Royston
This neat set of clean-cut originals and songbook covers is presented as a song cycle themed to reflect the American...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2015
Otis Brown III: The Thought Of You
One of the latest members of the drummer's A-list, Brown has more than proved his worth as a sideman (Lovano,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014
The Rob Dixon Trio: Coast to Crossroads
Charlie Hunter | Ernest Stuart | Mike Clark | Rob Dixon
Saxophonist Rob Dixon's confident phrasing and poised sense of time are grounded in four years playing with Illinois Jacquet's big...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2018
Terri Lyne Carrington: The ACT Years
A curious compilation in that Carrington only recorded two albums as leader for ACT, Jazz Is A Spirit and Structure....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015
Jon Cleary: GoGo Juice
A long time part of Bonnie Raitt's band, and a fine contributor to Rickie Lee Jones’ current and superb album,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015
Land Of Kush: Sand Enigma
Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian-Canadian composer and improviser who splits his time and energies between musical scenes in Montreal and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Veronica Swift
Veronica Swift’s professional destiny was never in much doubt: daughter of jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian, who toured with Jon Hendricks,...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2023
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