Aldo Romano: Mélodies En Noir & Blanc

Aldo Romano | Dino Rubino | Michel Benita

Aldo Romano is a drummer, but this album is a celebration of the lyrical power of the piano, with its...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Bob Mintzer | Christian McBride | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | John Scofield | Kenny Werner | Larry Goldings | Nguyên Lê | Peter Erskine | Vince Mendoza

Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011

Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening

Fred Hersch

One gift that Fred Hersch has in abundance is to own his performances of works by other composers. His 1990s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2024

Or Bareket: YŌM

Godwin Louis | Jeremy Corren | Or Bareket | Savannah Harris

Widely involved as a sideman on the New York scene, YŌM is bass player and composer Or Bareket’s fourth album...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: May/2025

Wolfgang Haffner: Heart of the Matter

Bruno Müller | Céline Rudolph | Dominic Miller | Eythor Gunnarsson | Götz Alsmann | Nicolas Fiszman | Sebastian Sudnitsky | Till Br'nner | Wolfgang Haffner

Heart of the Matter is a logical continuum of Shapes and Round Silence in its use of subtle electronic tone...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2012

Daniel Herskedal/Marius Neset: Neck of the Woods

Daniel Herskedal | Marius Neset | Svanholm Singers

While the jazz world awaits Marius Neset's imminent follow up to last year's highly-rated Golden Xplosion, here's a little appetiser...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Darius Brubeck Quartet: Years Ago

Darius Brubeck | Dave O'Higgins | Matt Ridley | Wesley Gibbens

Brubeck describes the title tune – written by South African saxophonist Duke Makasi and reminiscent in mood and melody of...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2017

Ben Wolfe: From Here I See

Ben Wolfe | Cyrus Beroukhim | Donald Edwards | Greg Hesselink | JD Allen | Kenji Bunch | Marcus Strickland | Orrin Evans | Owen Dalby | Russell Malone

Wolfe’s previous CD, recorded at Smalls, was very much a live date. Here, in Systems Two studio, everything is much...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Keeping Company

Bill Laurance | Michael League

Longtime members of maximalist fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance and Michael League, have established unexpected new ground in their...

Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: December/2024

Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours

The highlight of the Sinatra/Nelson Riddle collaboration, cut for Capitol in 1954-55, this is the epitome of the ballad-singing Frank,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2018