Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm: Robin Goodie

Ambrose Akinmusire | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Taylor Eigisti | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Zhenya Strigalev

“Hi, my name is Robin Goodie,” alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev declares in the middle of the title track in a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015

Bill Evans: New Jazz Conceptions

Bill Evans | Camille Morin | Dick Garcia | Eddie Costa | Jerry Bruno | Joe Puma | Oscar Pettiford | Paul Motian | Teddy Kotick

I know they say pop will eat itself (and probably has by now, while I wasn't looking) but it seems...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: The World For it Know

A CD that consists of two conceptual pieces commissioned for orchestra and centred around the voice as abstract sound source...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Sam Jones: Changes And Things

Barry Harris | Blue Mitchell | Bob Berg | Louis Hayes | Sam Jones | Slide Hampton

Interesting document of the emergence of new talent amid wise old heads. Put simply, the story here is the fine...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2016

George Shearing: The George Shearing Collection 1939-58

From his pre-war British recordings to the height of fame with the quintet, this corrals Decca, MGM and Capitol originals...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2013

George Gruntz: Dig My Trane

George Gruntz | Tom Rainey

The Swiss pianist, composer, arranger and conductor George Gruntz is a major figure on the European jazz scene. His Concert...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2012

Leni Stern: Dance

Elhadji Alioune Faye | Harouna Samake | Leni Stern | Leo Genovese | Mamadou Ba

"Some people say it sounds more Latin. Some people say it sounds more like Weather Report," German-born, New York-based guitarist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2021

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald | Paul Weston

Most live Ella, at least after her big-band days, found her in front of a trio or quartet, with the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2022

Aaron Parks: Little Big

Aaron Parks | David Ginyard | Greg Tuohey | Tommy Crane

For Invisible Cinema, his much-admired 2008 Blue Note debut, Seattle-born Aaron Parks was welcomed as a rising piano star –...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2019

Katharina Weber, Fred Frith, Fredy Studer: It Rolls

Pianist Katharina Weber, downtown guitar icon Fred Frith and drummer Fredy Studer have an intriguing new recording that deftly blends...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2015