Teemu Åkerblom: Quartet

This new album from the upcoming Finnish bassist's quartet is a mostly fiery hard swinging dose of 1960s hard bop,...

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

George Coleman: Live at Yoshi's

Alvin Queen | George Coleman | Harold Mabern | Ray Drummond

After 27 years in jazz, Coleman's first major feature in a leading music magazine came in 1980. There has not...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

Gary Smulyan: Alternative Contrafacts

As the title references, the veteran baritone saxophonist's trio has an engaging way of uncovering previously forgotten contrafacts (the practice...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Jason Miles & Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New

Adam Dorn | Amanda Ruzza | Brian Dunne | Cyro Baptista | Gene Lake | Ingrid Jensen | James Genus | Jason Miles | Jay Rodriguez | Jeff Coffin

As the title suggests, this album is inspired by the music of Miles Davis. But this is no pale imitation...

Reviewed by George Cole in issue: August/2015

Wandering Monster

Aleks Podraza | Ben Powling | Calvin Travers | Sam Quintana | Tom Higham

This may be their debut album, but there's a maturity and generosity in each others' musical company that makes Wandering...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Coleman Hawkins: Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947

Benny Carter | Benny Goodman | Charlie Shavers | Coleman Hawkins | Count Basie | Edmond Hall | Fletcher Henderson | Hank Jones | JJ Johnson | Lionel Hampton

A quarter-century of Hawkins is like a whole lifetime for most other people, indeed it's tantamount to the whole history...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

David Weiss | Jamire Williams | JD Allen | Luques Curtis | Nir Felder

Trumpeter David Weiss' current projects include the excellent Cookers, which features serious 1970s era musicians like Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2013

Jazz at the Movies: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Andrew J Brown | Chris Ingham | George Double | Joanna Eden | Mark Crooks

Instead of jazz scores at the movies, this is a recording of jazz interpretations of movie themes of no fixed...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Carl Winther & Jerry Bergonzi: Inner Journey

Anders Mogensen | Carl Winther | Jerry Bergonzi | Johnny Äman

Jerry Bergonzi first recorded with Danish pianist Carl Winther and his rhythm section in 2011. Since then, they have recorded...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2017

Rainer Pflunt: Triangulations: Unit 9

Dagmar Kohl | Gretchen Farber | Rainer Pflunt | Szigmund Biedermayer

Uncompromising – check. Dedicated – check. Relentless – maybe. Ignorable – never. Rainer Pflunt studied briefl y with Karlheinz Stockhausen...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: July/2018