Bill Evans: Empathy + Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Connie Kay | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Monty Budwig | Percy Heath | Shelly Manne | Walter Perkins

This is relatively minor Evans, but interesting nevertheless. Dating from the year following Scott LaFaro's death, it avoids his new...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013

Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero

Booker T Jones | Charles Lloyd | Don Was | Eric Harland | Gerald Clayton | Julian Lage | Reuben Rogers

Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Noah Stoneman: Anyone's Quiet: Let it Rain to You

Luca Caruso | Noah Stoneman | Will Sach

To that current extraordinary new wave of young UK jazz pianists (Deschanel Gordon, Sultan Stevenson, Eddie Gripper et al) we...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2023

Dom Franks’ Strayhorn: Duality pt.1

Anders Olinder | Andrew Tween | Dom Franks | John Paul Gard | Matt Hopkins

Beginning as an orchestral clarinettist and chorister, Dom Franks studied jazz under Jean Toussaint and became a lover of soul...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: October/2024

George Brown: Jazz in Paris

Andrea Lisa | Aneesa Almusaweer | Curtis F Williams | Duane Benjamin | George Brown | Jane Eugene | Katja Pod Korenom | Louis Van Taylor | Mike Cordone | Ney Oud

The late George Brown was the drummer with the jazz-influenced Kool and the Gang, and also one of the band’s...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2025

Katriona Taylor: Blind Passion

Chris Nickolls | Dave Jones | Dominic Ashworth | John Crawford | Katriona Taylor | Peter Hammond | Robin Banerjee | Vasilis Xenopoulos

There's a long tradition of blind and visually-impaired jazz musicians, from Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano and George Shearing through to...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: May/2021

Christine Tobin: Pelt

Christine Tobin | Dave Whitford | Gareth Lockrane | Kate Shortt | Liam Noble | Phil Robson | Richard Jones | Simon Lea

Referencing blues, folk, jazz and Americana, singer, songwriter and composer Christine Tobin's Pelt completes a dazzling quadriptych of songbook albums...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Christian McBride: Conversations With Christian McBride

Angélique Kidjo | Chick Corea | Christian McBride | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Dr Billy Taylor | Eddie Palmieri | George Duke | Gina Gershon | Hank Jones | Regina Carter

There's not the epic scope of his big band or the knotty intimacy of Inside Straight, but I reckon McBride...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2012

The Basie-ites: How High The Moon

A Basie 10-piece with Barry Harris, and a sextet with Jimmy Jones on piano are on show here with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums

Art Taylor | Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Donald Byrd | Duke Pearson | Herbie Hancock | Jackie McLean | Laymon Jackson | Pepper Adams

The title of the first of the four Blue Note albums here is apt, as Off To The Races is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023