Emily Masser: Songs with my Father

Dean Masser | Emily Masser | James Owston | Matyas Gayer | Steve Brown

It’s a family affair. Emily Masser’s mother Gill died just before Emily began studying at the Guildhall, and she is...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2025

Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River

Charles Altura | Eden Ladin | Matt Penman | Obed Calvaire | Sara Serpa | Tobias Meinhart

This one’s a grower. Early in his career, German-born Tobias Meinhart was persuaded to seek his fortune in New York....

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: July/2025

John Coltrane/Cannonball Adderley: John Coltrane & Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Tadd Dameron | Wynton Kelly

Strange retitlings and strange bedfellows in the bonus material of these two CDs, but also some fine music. The main...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Tony Bennett: The Beat of My Heart

It was a slightly bonkers idea, in 1957, to team Tony Bennett with various drummers from Jo Jones to Art...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Helen Merrill: Four Classic Albums

Still with us at the time of writing (89 this month), this is Helen Merrill on peak form from 1954-59,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

The Elliott Henshaw Band: Who’d Have Guest?

Andrew McKinney | Bob Mintzer | Bryan Corbett | Chris Aldridge | Chris Traves | Dave Weckl | Elliott Henshaw | Fiona Asbury | Gwilym Simcock | James Pusey

‘Being heavily influenced by the likes of Dave Grusin, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn,’ in-demand drummer and percussionist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Ella Fitzgerald: At The Opera House

One of the first lady of jazz's greatest live albums with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Jo Jones, plus extra...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010

Album Interview: Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio: Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton | Brandy | Casey Benjamin | Common | Derrick Hodge | Dwele | Emeli Sandé | Faith Evans | Glasper | Jill Scott

Needless to say the predecessor was a big, big album, making Glasper the go-to jazzer for a new generation of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013

Corrie Dick: Sun Swells

Alice Zawadzki | Corrie Dick | Dave Malkin | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Laura Jurd | Marianna Sangita | Matt Robinson | Rob Luft | Tom McCredie

Corrie Dick wears his prodigious rhythmic education lightly, having studied with Ghanaian master Sadiq Addy alongside mind-blowing times in Morocco,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Joan Chamorro & Andrea Motis: Feeling Good

The type of X Factor jazz-pop standard vocal thing that's been done to death in this kind of entirely predictable...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015