Randy Weston & His African Rhythms Sextet: The Storyteller: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Alex Blake | Benny Powell | Lewis Nash | Neil Clarke | Randy Weston | T.K Blue

This is effectively a summary of the great pianist's contribution to jazz. For the best part of six decades, Weston...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2011

-Isq: Too

-Isq = Irene Serra Quartet, led by an Italian, London-based raw folky singer songwriter with originals that show some depth....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Frank Morgan & George Cables: Montreal Memories

Frank Morgan | George Cables

Frank Morgan’s discography opens in 1953 with a Prestige date for Teddy Charles. Two years later, hailed as the new...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2019

Various Artists: The Beat of Brazil – Brazilian Grooves From The Warner Vaults

Airto Moreira | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Band Black Rio | Eddie Cano | Gilberto Gil | Louie Ramirez | Nino Tempo

A Johnny-come-lately in the marketing stakes, coming as it does after the stable door has shut in Rio and the...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2016

John Stein: Lifeline

Alexandre Zamith | Daniel Grajew | Dave Hurst | Dave Zinno | David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Ed Lucie | Evan Harlan | Fernando Brandão | Frank Herzberg | Greg Conroy

We reviewed Kansas City guitarist Stein's Whaling City Serendipity CD favourably in our October 2021 issue, while admitting that his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Torben Westergaard: The Gori Project

Bassist Westergaard oversees a soothingly ambient yet largely undemanding collaboration that merges the folk-like tranquillity of traditional South Korean and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Alex Tassel: The First Element: The Sea

Alex Tassel | Diego Imbert | Guy Barker | Jose Arean | Julien Charlet | Laurent de Wilde | Mexico Symphonic Orchestra | Sylvain Beuf

There are quite a few layers of surprise surrounding this album recorded in Mexico by a quintet and local symphony...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: September/2012

Billy Jenkins: The Semi-Detached Suburban Home (Music for Low Strung Guitar)

Billy Jenkins

Raise a glass to a masterpiece in miniature. Thirty solo tracks, with barely three breaking the two minute barrier, these...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Cannonball Adderley: Know What I Mean?

Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Connie Kay | Paul Motian | Percy Heath | Scott LaFaro | Shelly Manne

Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley wasn't the first jazz player to be confronted with the realisation that success can be a double...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2019

Møster!: Edvard Lygre Møster

Kenneth Kapstad | Kjetil Møster | Nikolai Eilertsen | Ståle Storløkken

Keyboardist Ståle Storløkken and bassist Nikolai Eilertsen work together in the trio Elephant9, and this new Norwegian quartet led by...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2013