CeCe Gable: More Than a Song

Well-respected on the cabaret jazz circuit, the singer nevertheless is working in a creative setting, her engaging conversational tone and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Maurizio Grandinetti: Seek

A Swiss-based guitarist who draws from minimalism, ambient and abstract improv, though it's the track ‘Take Life as a Slow...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Burak Bedikyan: Leap of Faith

Doug Weiss | Eric Alexander | Johnathan Blake

Burak Bedikyan is a Turkish jazz pianist who pledges allegiance to the bebop masters from Bud Powell through to the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Carmen Lundy: Changes

Anthony Wonsey | Carmen Lundy | George Bohanon | Jamison Ross | Kenny Davis | Nolan Shaheed | Oscar Castro-Neves

In an age in which every chanteuse fresh out of music college thinks themselves to be Billie Holiday, a new...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2012

Michael Dease: All These Hands

Trombonist Michael Dease's octet (with alto-saxophonist Steve Wilson and pianist Renee Rosnes) takes us on an interesting historical travelogue through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

The Stanley Clarke Band: The Message

Beka Gochiashvili | Cameron Graves | Chris Clarke | Chuck Findley | Doug E Fresh | Doug Webb | Dwayne Benjamin | Mark Isham | Michael Thompson | Mike Mitchell

Clarke is and will forever be a hero, but you've gotta wonder about the message of The Message. It reads...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2018

Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn: Second Half

Alex Norris | Emilio Solla | Eric Doob | John Ellis | Jorge Roeder | JP Joffre | Marcelo Woloski | Meg Okura | Pablo Assan | Ryan Keberle

Solla is Argentinian-born but based in New York and has led his nine-piece orchestra there with these first-call players since...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015

Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet: String Theory

Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Carmen Flores | Dave Le Page | Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Mathew Sharp | Max Luthert

Glaswegian guitarist Jim Mullen recently reformed his quartet with Gareth Williams, Mick Hutton and Gary Husband for a Jazz Services-supported...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2015

Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

Martin Archer and Engine Room Favourites: Bad Tidings from Slackwater Drag

Corey Mwamba | Graham Clark | Johnny Hunter | Laura Cole | Martin Archer | Mick Beck | Peter Fairclough | Seth Bennett | Steve Dinsdale | Walt Shaw

Two discs of ambitious and diverse music, inspired by AACM and the notion of moving beyond abstraction by drawing on...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2015