Barber Mouse: Heretic Monk

Fabrizio Rat | Mattia Barbieri | Stefano Risso

As the album title suggests, the impetus behind this nippy little date is to cast an irreverent eye over the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2022

Bud Powell: Strictly Powell

Art Taylor | Bud Powell | George Duvivier

It's gratifying that, in mining the large RCA jazz archive, the reissuers even thought of including Powell, but rather depressing...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2016

Luca Aquino: Italian Songbook

Trumpeter Aquino plays the themes as his trio decoratively weave improvisations around lush middle-of-the-road, largely slow-paced orchestral arrangements of film...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2019

Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed

Corey Benjamin | Daniel Frankhuizen | Elena Pinderhughes | Felix Peikli | James Francies | Jean Baylor | Joseph Doubleday | Joshua Crumbly | Mike Moreno | Pedro Martinez

Vibraphonist Harris, a musician whose discography includes impressive albums for Blue Note, above all 2003's ambitious The Grand Unification Theory,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2018

Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

Alan Skidmore | Colin Bates | Dick Morrissey | Don Rendell | Harry Beckett | John Surman | John Warren | Ken Wheeler | Michael Garrick | Michel Gibbs

This two CD or double gatefold LP set takes up where Universal's Impressed Repressed series left off in 2004-5. That...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

King Fleming: The King Fleming Trio

Relatively unknown outside Chicago, until his death at 91 earlier this year, Fleming is revealed on these sides as a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Emmet Cohen: Future Stride

Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Marquis Hill | Melissa Aldana | Russell Hall

An unexpected surprise from pianist Cohen, now in his very early 30s but clearly aware of all of jazz history....

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2021

Hank Crawford: Don't You Worry About A Thing

Creed Taylor's fussy production blunts Crawford's funky effectiveness as a soloist, and 35 minute playing time is miserly....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2012

The Ben Riley Quartet: Grown Folks Music

A veteran master of hard bop drumming shows that a lazy or snappy groove is all you need to make...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Viktor Toth Arum Trio: Szemed Kincse/The Present

This Hungarian trio capture an enchanting, dreamlike cool jazz vibe with its homebrew instrumentation of sax (leader Viktor Toth), cimbalom...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2016