Patti Bown: Plays Big Piano

The reissued Columbia debut album of the Seattle-based protégé of Quincy Jones from 1959, reveals her as one of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2013

Dinah Washington: For Those In Love

An excellent anthology of Dinah Washington's work with Quincy Jones from the mid-1950s, plus some additional live tracks with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2015

DR Big Band featuring Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts: The Impaler

With compositions by Tain, Michael Brecker and Thad Jones, it's the drummer who ensures an explosively punctuated engine room for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Zoot Sims: Leader & Sideman: Four Classic Albums

Al Cohn | Bob Brookmeyer | Charlie Persip | Danny Richmond | Dave McKenna | Eddie Jones | Freddie Green | Hank Jones | Harry Edison | Jon Eardley

A treasure trove for connoisseurs of mainstream-modern groove, this CD-double uncovers four albums – Stretchin' Out, Starring Zoot Sims, Down...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2012

Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

According To The Sound: Pitch

Adam Parry-Davies | Alex Hutchings | David Adewumi | Gary Alesbrook | James Carter | James Morton | Jared Schonig | Jim Barr | Justin Brown | Kaisa Mäensivu

Although for obvious reasons remote recording took off during the pandemic, it is thankfully no longer the only option. But...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: July/2024

Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life

Becca Wilkins | Emma Rawicz | James Owston | Kai Chareunsy | Liam Brennan | Maria Grapsa | Matthew Kilner | Tom Pountney | Tommy Fuller | Torin Davies

With a solid grounding in such contemporary ensembles as Tomorrow’s Warriors Female Frontline, Colectiva and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, and...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024

Makiko Hirabayashi: Gifts

Bjorn Heebol | Fredrik Lundin | Makiko Hirabayashi | Thommy Andersson

Since leaving her native Japan 30 years ago, Hirabayashi has immersed herself in the vibrant Copenhagen jazz scene, releasing no...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2025

Leif Maine and Jackson Mathod: Volte-Face

Ajene James Davis | Christopher Summer | Jackson Mathod | Thomas Leif Maine

Volte-Face is the sound of Tulse Hill, South London - very 2020s, drifting, ambient, the shape of its compositions often...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2024

Nathaniel Cross: The Description is Not the Described

Andre Jack | Dylan Jones | Emmanuel Oladokun | Errol Cross | Michael ‘Ayan Mich'l’ Adesina | Nathaniel Cross | Phillip Harper | Richie Garrison | Saleem Raman | Sheldon Agwu

The debut EP from trombonist, arranger, and composer Nathaniel Cross transcends any singular place or time with gorgeously arranged horns,...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: August/2021