Marilena Paradisi/Kirk Lightsey: Some Place Called Where

A duo between Italian vocalist and veteran Detroit born pianist Lightsey, who has recorded with Chet and toured with Dexter...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Carsten Dahl Experience: Caleidoscopia

Carsten Dahl | Jesper Zeuthen | Nils Davidsen | Stefan Pasborg

There is no shortage of Carsten Dahl recordings, and this latest with his Experience follows on from the triology Humilitas...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2017

Marquis Hill: The Way We Play

Christie Dashiell | Christopher McBride | Harold Green III | Joshua Ramos | Juan Pastor | Justin ‘Justefan’ Thomas | Makay McCraven | Marquis Hill | Meagan McNeal | Vincent Gardiner

If you skip the opening voiceover band introductory track, this turns out to be an interesting and pleasurable album featuring...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2016

Drew Gress: The Sky Inside

Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey

Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Todd Marcus: Inheritance

This Baltimore-based bass clarinet specialist looks to fresh angles for the instrument within a mainstream post-bop session also featuring pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Working Week: May 1985 (The Livelove Series Volume 3)

Chucho Merchan | Joao Bosco De Oliveira | Juliet Roberts | Kim Burton | Larry Stabbins | Nic France | Paul Spong | Richard Edwards | Simon Booth

A great opportunity to savour a firing-on-all cylinders concert by what was always the best group that emerged from the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015

Big Screen: Take One

Dave Newton | Matt Skelton | Tom Farmer

It's funny how an unapologetically glossy traditional piano trio take on popular TV and film themes can start to sound...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Michael Gibbs/Gary Burton: Festival 69

Alan Skidmore | Bill Goodwin | Chris Pyne | Chris Spedding | Dave Pritchard | Dick Hart | Frank Ricotti | Gary Burton | Henry Lowther | Jack Bruce

When these 1969 live recordings were made, the composer and trombonist Michael Gibbs had left his birthplace in what was...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018

Scott DuBois: Summer Water

DuBois’ chiming ambient-rock solo guitar shifts from mellow to melodically stormy in the third in a series of programmatic albums...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Kenny Werner: Solo In Stuttgart

Kenny Werner

An absorbing set from Werner, which for this writer inevitably brings to mind an equally impressive but totally different solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019