Bobby Sparks II: Schizophrenia: The Yang Project

Allen Cato | Antwan Smith | Barry Jackson | Bobby Sparks II | Brad Herring | Brannen Temple | Braylon Lacy | Brother Polite | Chalmers Alford | Daru Jones

All hail the Messiah of the Moog, Snarky Puppy's Sparkchild, Mr Sparks II. A sprawling 2CD, 20-cut extravaganza, it's hard...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Leroy Vinnegar | Philly Joe Jones | Serge Chaloff | Sonny Clark

Today, when Chaloff is remembered (if he is remembered at all), it is as a soloist in Woody Herman's Second...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra: Les Deux Versants se Regardent

Antonin-Tri Hoang | Benjamin Dousteyssier | Eivind Lønning | Eve Risser | Fanny Lasfargues | Fidel Fourneyron | Julien Desprez | Sophie Bernado | Sylvain Darrifourcq | Sylvaine Helary

Accompanying their hugely impressive international performances at both the Finnish Tampere and London Jazz Festivals at the end of last...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

YolanDa Brown: April Showers May Flowers

A CD/DVD live set recorded at Under The Bridge, the new ‘special one’ of UK smooth jazz attempts to spice...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

Joe Stilgoe: Stilgoe in the Shed

Joe Stilgoe

Stilgoe in the Shed, the UK vocalist, pianist and songwriter's eighth album, recreates the series of daily online shows which...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2020

Ole Matthiessen: Social Distancing

Bob Rockwell | Eliel Lazo | Henrik Bolberg | Jan zum Vohrde | Lis Wessberg | Ole Matthiessen | Ole Streenberg | Rune Fog-Nielsen

The influential Danish pianist-producer Matthiessen, now 75, worked on these 13 pieces during 2020’s lockdown and says they look to...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022

Perluigi Balducci: Blue from Heaven

A first recording together for the pianist John Taylor and saxophonistoboist Paul McCandless who join this Italian electric bassist leader...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Jim Mullen Organ Trio: Catch My Drift

Jim Mullen | Matt Skelton | Mike Gorman

This is the UK's premier guitar soloist swinging his regular touring trio through some neglected and indeed completely forgotten standards,...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2014

Don Laka: Afro Chopin

If the album title is more than a bit off- putting, the veteran South African multikeyboardist Don Laka's native Marabi...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Joanna Wallfisch: Wild Swan

A promising Guildhall postgraduate vocalist with a New York quartet featuring Sam Newsome and Joe Martin, but English in terms...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012