Raul Midón: Bad Ass and Blind

Gerald Clayton | Lionel Cordew | Raul Midón | Richard Hammond

As anyone who's had the pleasure of seeing him perform live will testify, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Raul Midón is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2017

Bill Evans: Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings From Denmark (1965–1969)

Alex Riel | Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Marty Morrell | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson | the Danish Radio Big Band | the Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra

I would never pretend to be an Evans scholar, or even expert, but I am an unabashed fan who loves...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023

Count Basie: The Count Basie Orchestra Play Neal Hefti

On My Way reappears in this 3LPs on 2CDs collection along with the Atomic session and Plays Hefti for a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2013

Lloyd McNeil Quartet: Washington Suite

Eugene Rush | Lloyd McNeil | Marshall Hawkins | Robert Gravatt

Another handsomely packaged reissue from Universal Sound makes the point, that what passes for ‘spiritual’ or ‘deep jazz’ is not...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2012

Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Emergence

Adam Jackson | Alan Benzie | Andrew Robb | Ed Marr | Euan Fulton | Heather Macintosh | Heather MacIntosh | James Marr | Joe Wright | John Fleming

It has been said before, it will be said again: jazz north of the border is thriving. That's thanks in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58

Gerry Mulligan | Harry 'sweets’ Edison | Herb Ellis | Louie Bellson | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown | Stan Getz

Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013

Bobby McFerrin: Vocabularies

Alex Acuna | Donny McCaslin | Janis Siegel | Lisa Fischer | Luciana Souza | Pedro Eustache | Roger Treece | Sussan Deyhim | Theo Bleckmann

McFerrrin's previous studio album, 2002's Beyond Words, arguably one of the most poetic jazz sets of the last decade, was,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2010

Mary Halvorson: Code Girl

Ambrose Akinmusire | Amirtha Kidambi | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara

“It is not predictable, my mind” sings Amirtha Kidambi on the opening track on Mary Halvorson's seventh album as leader....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Beverley Beirne: Dream Dancer

Ben Brown | Cyro Baptista | Duncan Lamont | Flo Moore | Jason Miles | Rob Hughes | Romero Lubambo | Sam Watts

A spotlight, please, for Beverley Beirne, the Yorkshire-based songstress whose superb alto voice has wowed punters everywhere from Rome to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021

Kansas Smitty's Band: Kansas Smitty's

These London-based young fogies have their own retro cocktail bar in Hackney and offer authentically jovial sounding New Orleans and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016