Jimmy Greene: Beautiful Life
Although personal tragedy has been the background to many an artistic statement, few could conceivably match the devastatingly cruel fate...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015
Joe Jackson: The Duke
It's to the Duke's everlasting credit that his music transcends whatever re-imaginings other artist's bring to it. Joe Jackson obviously...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2012
Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next Big Band: Listen Up!
A confirmed able and keeper of Art Blakey’s flame, drummer (and-ex-Messenger) Peterson is also a composer of note, the highlight...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2020
Misha Mullov-Abbado: Dream Circus
James Davison | Liam Dunachie | Matthew Herd | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Sam Rapley | Scott Chapman
Featuring the same classy young UK sextet that recorded his 2017 session Cross-Platform Interchange, and produced by the adventurous Jasper...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2020
Carmen Lundy: Code Noir
Ben Williams | Carmen Lundy | Elisabeth Oei | Jeff Parker | Kendrick Scott | Patrice Rushen
Any new album by Carmen Lundy is a cause for celebration and, delivering a heady mix of jazz, blues, samba...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017
Album Interview: Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun
Jason Vieaux | John Dearman | Matthew Greif | Pat Metheny | Scott Tennant | William Kanengiser
Pat Metheny's fascinating odyssey through music continues. Perspicacious as ever, his change of record label to Modern Recordings/BMG presented the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021
Bill Evans: Live At Birdland, New York City
The absolute classics in this batch are combined on the Jazz Images reissue, not only the advertised Waltz For Debby...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019
Gene Krupa: Second Set/Four Classic Albums Sing, Sing, Sing/Gene Krupa Quartet/Krupa Rocks/The Jazz Rhythms Of Gene Krup
Can anyone forget that mid-1940s photograph of the entire Gene Krupa Orchestra decked out in bebop berets, dark shades and...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014
Holshauser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC
A Dutch-based free jazz trinity of great veterans explore music with a folk dance leaning too....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014
Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 014
The fourteenth release in the Jazz Is Dead series sees 81-year-old bass legend Henry Franklin in the leader’s berth, aided...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2022
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