Ran Blake: That Certain Feeling (The George Gershwin Songbook)

In duo with either Ricky Ford or Steve Lacy, Blake explores Gershwin with probing, questioning imagination, but never losing sight...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2011

Ivo Perelman with Sirius Quartet: The Passion According to G.H.

Fung Chern Hwei | Gregor Huebner | Ivo Perelman | Jeremy Harman | Ron Lawrence

I'm no great fan of Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman – I often feel he overplays his welcome – but The...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: November/2012

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Featuring Grant Green: Joe's Blues

Billy Butler | Grady Tate | Grant Green | Johnny Hodges | Kenny Burrell | Les Spann | Milt Hinton | Mundell Lowe | Osie Johnson | Wild Bill Davis

Subtitled ‘The Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Project’, these four individual CDs (one is a double) corral eight original albums –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Brendan Reilly: The Life of Reilly

Al Cherry | Brendan Reilly | Oli Savill | Rob Taggart | Robin Mullarkey | Troy Miller

Seamlessly traversing pop, soul, jazz and dance music, the LA-born, London-based singer-songwriter Brendan Reilly makes a return to his soul-jazz...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2016

Various Artists: Feeling Good: Funk Soul and Deep Jazz Gems: The Sound of Bob Shad

A good soul-infected anthology of 1970s work from Shad's much-sampled Mainstream label, somewhat of its time, but featuring Blue Mitchell,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Scott Jeppesen: Wonders

A rising star in the tough Joe Henderson- mentored tenor mould, this Los Angeles resident combines a mainstream fusion with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Alice Coltrane: The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

| Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane took the sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda as much more than a perfunctory nod to eastern religion and philosophy. She...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

Dimitry Baevsky: The Composers

A young St Petersburg-reared New Yorkbased softly hard bop saxophonist paying tribute to modernist jazz composers in a band featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Salvodelli Casarano Bardoscia: The Great Gig In The Sky

Boris Salvodelli | Dewa Budjana | Marco Bardoscia | Maurizio Nobili | Raffaele Casarano

Curiously, perhaps, Pink Floyd haven't spread their influence across the jazz world, although Sam Yahel's Jazz Side of the Moon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

Mark Wingfield: Proof Of Light

Asaf Sirkis | Mark Wingfield | Yaron Stavi

Wingfield has an epic vision, mixing synths, yawing changes of pitch and a muscular feel to create aural stories (tunes...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2015