Keyon Harrold: The Mugician

Andrea Pizziconi | Big K.R.I.T | Bilal Oliver | Brandon Owens | Burniss Travis | Chris Dave | Gary Clark Jnr | Georgia Ann Muldrow | Guy Torry | Hanan Rubenstein

Having racked up impressive sideman credits with the likes of Gregory Porter, Marcus Strickland and Robert Glasper, trumpeter Harrold makes...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Steve Lacy Quintet: Troubles

Chanting, free improv, compositions and an unusual ensemble with Irene Aebi's violin joining the reeds of Lacy and Steve Potts,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2017

Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends: In Concert

Adrian Cox | Alyn Shipton | Emile Martyn | Finlay Milne | Richard Simmons | Simon Picton

Author and Jazzwise scribe Shipton has long had an active side-line as bassist and bandleader. More recently this has been...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022

Jerome Sabbagh: The Turn

The Stan Getz-favoured French tenor saxophonist was the last horn sideman of the late Paul Motian, and this quartet featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Album Interview: Billy Hart Quartet: One Is The Other

Ben Street | Billy Hart | Ethan Iverson | Mark Turner

A great addition to the lineage of the saxophone quartet – led by a drummer. It takes a player of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2014

Charles Mingus: Mingus Three

Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Hampton Hawes

Mingus’ most typical and most affecting music was always performed with horns, but in the 1950s he also did a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2022

John Lester Quartet: Jazz?

This New York bassist has a MOR vocal linking the jazz-cute of Michael Franks to singer-songwriter Paul Simon. On mostly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Dennis Angel: On Track

Flugelhorn player Dennis Angel has Jason Miles, the 1980s keyboardist to Miles and the stars, as sideman and producer, but...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015

Susan Alcorn Quintet: Pedernal

Mark Feldman | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Ryan Sawyer | Susan Alcorn

The Baltimore- based Susan Alcorn specialises in pedal steel guitar, an instrument that in America has its origins in country...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2020

Duke Ellington: Meets Coleman Hawkins/And John Coltrane

An essential two LPs on one CD by two of Ellington's most inspired invited guests....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012