Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt: Jubilation! Celebrating Cannonball Adderley

Billy Drummond | David Hazeltine | Jeremy Pelt | Jim Snidero | Nat Reeves

Jeremy Pelt must surely know the whole Adderley brothers' band book by heart – he's already a member of the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2018

Reuben James: Big People Music

Reuben James

Released on his own Rufio Records and recorded at Limusic Residential Recording Studio, a former winery in southern France, this...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2025

Rob Luft: Life is the Dancer

Byron Wallen | Corrie Dick | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Luna Cohen | Rob Luft | Tom McCredie

We need be gentle with Luft. He's spectacularly talented, but there can be costs to being the hardest working man...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Nicola Conte: Love & Revolution

Gregory Porter | Jose James | Magnus Lindgren | Nailah Porter | Paolo Benedettini | Pietro Lusssu | Teppo Makynen | Till Bronner

Featuring a stellar line-up of international vocalists and instrumentalists, deluxe arrangements courtesy of Swedish multi-instrumentalist Magnus Lindgren, and a beautifully...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2011

Benedikt Jahnel Trio: Equilibrium

Benedikt Jahnel's day job may be as a researcher in mathematics at Ruhr university in Bochum, Germany, but he has...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Michel Camilo: What's Up?

Michel Camilo

It’s not a great title, is it? ‘Wassup!?’ – in the manner of those Budweiser ads – would have been...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013

Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1

Chick Corea

Although Chick Corea’s first release on the ECM label was as a member of ARC with Dave Holland and Barry...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2025

Eric Alexander Trio: Just One Of Those Things

Dezron Douglas | Eric Alexander | Neal Smith

Eric Alexander gets to his inner John Coltrane from the first notes of ‘Just One of Those Things’ to the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2017

Rich Perry: Other Matters

Gary Versace | Jay Anderson | John Riley | Rich Perry

Cleveland, Ohio-born saxophonist Rich Perry joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band in 1977 and, as a member of the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2020

Javon Jackson: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni

David Williams | Javon Jackson | Jeremy Manasia | McClenty Hunter | Nikki Giovanni

The 78-year old Giovanni is a renowned African-American poet, Black Arts activist and educator who linked with Jackson when she...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2022