Seth McFarlane: Music Is Better Than Words

Alan Broadbent | Andy Martin | Chuck Berghofer | Chuck Findlay | Joel McNeely | Larry Koonse | Norah Jones | Pete Christlieb | Peter Erskine | Sara Bareilles

If you’re the producer of TV's Family Guy and now the director of a current feature film (Ted), presumably you...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Rob Luft: Dahab Days

Alice Zawadzki | Byron Wallen | Corrie Dick | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Laura Senior | Lucy Nolan | Peggy Nolan | Rob Luft | Simmy Singh

Rob Luft is always travelling, and as he travels, he absorbs every kind of music in his path, creating hallucinogenic...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2023

Peter Gall: Love Avatar

Matthias Pichler | Peter Gall | Rainer Böhm | Reinier Baas | Wanja Slavin

Bavarian-born drummer Peter Gall has an impressive pedigree, which includes work with the New York Voices, Take 6, and the...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024

Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More

Chris Tordini | Jo-Yu Chen | Tommy Crane

Taiwanese-born pianist Jo-Yu Chen has been blurring the lines between jazz and classical since her 2009 debut Obsession. She recently...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: July/2025

Lee Ritenour: Overtime

Swift reissue for this 2004 session by the fusion guitarist with some fine collaborators including Ernie Watts, Dave Grusin and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Ex-Woody Herman/Dave Holland baritone sax specialist in combination with an organ trio here plays consummate straightahead....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012

Third Ear Band: Alchemy: Remastered and Expanded Edition

Dave Tomlin | Glen Sweeny | John Peel | Mel Davis | Paul Minns | Richard Coff

As uncategorisable today as they were back in the high hippie summers of 1968 and 1969, Third Ear Band had...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2019

Slowly Rolling Camera: Silver Shadow

Dave Stapleton | Deri Roberts | Elliot Bennett | Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Stuart McCallum | Verneri Pohjola | Victoria Stapleton

Setting up Edition Records in 2008 certainly made a dent in pianist/composer Dave Stapleton’s performing career. That ‘cottage industry’ label...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2024

Al Cohn/Richie Kamuca/Bill Perkins: The Brothers!

The shade of Lester Young hovers over this delightful three–tenor conversation from 1958 with a hard–swinging Hank Jones quartet in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Various Artists: Here It Is: A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Bill Frisell | Greg Leisz | Gregory Porter | Iggy Pop | Immanuel Wilkins | James Taylor | Kevin Hays | Larry Goldings | Lusiana Souza | Mavis Staples David Gray

Artists have been covering the songs of Leonard Cohen since at least 1969, when Roberta Flack included ‘Hey, That's No...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022