Benjamin Koppel: Portable Infinity
Benjamin Koppel | Jacob Karlzon | Magnus Öström | Scott Colley
Danish saxophonist Koppel is joined by players from Sweden and the USA, recorded live at the RSI Television Studio 2...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/2025
Angélique Kidjo: Spirit Rising
Featuring a selection of Kidjo originals and covers including the Curtis Mayfield classic ‘Move On Up’, Spirit Rising is the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2012
Spirit: It Shall Be: The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
Originally called Spirits Rebellious, after a book of short stories by Lebanese-American writer Khalil Gibran, this phenomenal 1960s US psychedelic...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2018
Magnus Bakken Quartet featuring George Garzone: Cycles
Christian Meaas Svendsen | George Garzone | Jon Audun Baar | Jørn Ølen | Magnus Bakken
Norwegian saxophonist Bakken spent four years at Berklee, where Garzone was one of his teachers, and this debut album neatly...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: March/2016
Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol.2
Unlike Road Shows Vol.1, which spanned nearly three decades of Sonny live, all but 16 and-a-half minutes of the new...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2011
Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964
Jackie Dougan | Johnny Griffin | Malcolm Cecil | Stan Tracey
A simplistic overview of modern jazz tenor saxophone in 1964 would have Stan Getz blowing bossa-nova at one end and...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Warren Wolf: Wolfgang
Warren Wolf is certainly the best new vibes player to emerge in recent years and this, his second outing for...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013
Petter Eldh’s Koma Saxo: Koma West
The Swedish Berlin-based Petter Eldh is as inventive as he is prolific. He’s a genre-busting adventurer, more known as a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022
Bill Evans: Complete 1956-1962 Studio Albums
This dovetails neatly with other recent reissues of probably the most influential pianist of the past half-century: namely, the 1961...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014
Walt Weiskopf: Fountain Of Youth
Behn Gilece | Mike Karn | Peter Zak | Steve Fidyk | Walt Weiskopf
Saxophonists who have connections with the jazz-rock band Steely Dan make an impressive list: Michael Brecker, Phil Woods, Tom Scott,...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: August/2017
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