Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs: Constitution

Asher Gamedze | Athi Ngcaba | Fred Moten | Garth Erasmus | Jed Petersen | Nobuhle Ashanti | Ru Slayen | Sean Sanby | Tina Mene | Tumi Pheko

Here's a date that's huge in every way, as Cape Town-based drummer and composer Asher Gamedze leads his horn-heavy, 10-piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2024

Enji: Sonor

Elias Stemeseder | Enkhjargal Erkhembayar | Julian Sartorius | Paul Brändle | Robert Landfermann

The third album from Mongolian singer Enji showcases a beautiful evolution in her tender, jazz-inflected sound. Collaborating once more with...

Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: July/2025

Jean-Pierre Sasson: Portrait of an Unsung Guitarist

Alex Caturegly | Andre Jourdan | André Persiany | Armand Molinetti | Baptiste ‘Mac Kac’ Reilles | Benny Bennett | Benoit Quersin | Bernard Peiffer | Bernard Planchenault | Bill Coleman

Fresh Sound’s Jordi Pujol looks out for forgotten friends and he’s done it again. Jean-Pierre Sasson (1918-1999) may be a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2025

Ballister: Znachki Stilyag

Dave Rempis | Fred Lonberg-Holm | Paal Nilssen-Love

This hardworking trio – celebrating its 10th year as an active entity – teams the Norwegian powerhouse drummer Nilssen-Love with...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2020

Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: Songbook

Alan Broadbent | Dave Ohm | Georgia Mancio | Oli Hayhurst

From the incredibly touching album opener ‘The Journey Home’ to the hauntingly beautiful ‘Lullaby for MM’ with which it signs...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2017

Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Chris Lightcap | Chris Speed | Craig Taborn | Dave King

Daylight Ghosts is one of the most evocative and tantalising titles in recent memory, but, more to the point, it...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2017

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Blue Beginnings

Colin Purbrook | Dave Green | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Trevor Tomkins

The repertoire of Jazz In Britain’s Blue Beginnings collection mostly mirrors that of the celebrated Rendell/Carr quintet’s 1965 debut Shades...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2021

Pete Magadini: Bones Blues

Dave Young | Don Menza | Pete Magadini | Wray Downes

Once during a conversation with Stan Getz I asked him why he seldom included any original compositions on his albums....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Sonny Clark: Four Classic Albums

As well as several posthumous archive issues, Clark was responsible for six albums released during his short lifetime, five of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Sarah Vaughan: The Complete 1947-1950

Barney Kessel | George Duvivier | Joe Comfort | Mundell Lowe | Sarah Vaughan

The second 2CD volume in Le Chant du Monde’s Sarah Vaughan series, The Complete 1947-1950, features brilliant interpretations of ‘The...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2013