Eif Caglar: Misfit

A persuasive singer-songwriter from Turkey (with band featuring Eric Harland and Aaron Parks) with affiliations to 1970s jazz era Joni...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2016

Sammy Price: Three Classic Albums Plus

Boogie and blues specialist Price led some fine sessions, the highlights here being his sextet’s collaboration with Sidney Bechet, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Fistfght at the Barn Dance

Andy Greenwood | Barnaby Dickinson | Barry Clements | Gareth Lockrane | Graeme Blevins | Henry Collins | Hugh Wilkinson | Ian Thomas | James Gardiner-Bateman | Jonny Mansfield

This is the first call London-based flute specialist and composer Gareth Lockrane's long awaited Big Band debut release on Michael...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Robert Glasper: Black Radio

Bilal | Casey Benjamin | Chris Dave | Derrick Hodge | Erykah Badu | Lalah Hathaway | Ledisi | Lupe Fiasco | Meshell Ndegeocello | Mos Def

This is not a jazz album as such. Debate over whether it even belongs in these pages may well consume...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012

Carsten Dahl Trio: Simplicity

A piano trio of two decades is a rare thing but Danish pianist Dahl's new record has all the advantages...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

The Stryker/Slagle Band (Expanded): Routes

Saxophonist Steve Slagle is a leading member of the Mingus Big Band and co-leads this post-bop big band with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

James Moody: Four Classic Albums

The surprise of these 1955-57 sessions is that they are essentially small band swing, plus a bit of bebop phrasing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights

Benjamin Drazen | Carlo De Rosa | Eric McPherson | Jon Davis

Last year, there seemed to be a brilliant new Cuban pianist every month. Since then, there's been a flurry of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011

Andy Scott + Group S: Ruby and All Things Purple

Andy Scott | Barbara Thompson | Chris Caldwell | Dave Graham | Elliot Henshaw | Gwilym Simcock | James Pusey | Jim Fieldhouse | John Helliwell | Jon Hiseman

Formed in 1995, saxophonist Andy Scott's Manchester-based SaxAssault has recently changed its name to Group S to reflect the less...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Wolff Parkinson White: Favours

Oddly but attractively packaged in a spongey red material, this CD has an undiluted yet overactive contemporary improv-electronica as backdrop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020