Hiromi & Hiromi’s Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland

Hiromi | Adam O’Farrill | Gene Coye | Hadrien Feraud | Oli Rockberger

As Herbie Hancock showed on ‘Chameleon’, a synth can create deep, in the pocket grooves on the simplest of riffs....

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Jazzmeia Horn: Love and Liberation

Stacey Dillard | Victor Gould | Jazzmeia Horn | Ben Williams | Jamison Ross | Sullivan Fortner | Josh Evans

Winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, the Dallas-born, NYC-based vocalist Jazzmeia Horn released one of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart: All About That Basie

Doug Miller | Gleave Guyton Jr | Ricky Woodard | Jon Faddis | Mike Williams | Ray Nelson II | Jamie Davis | Kris Johnson | Bobby Floyd | Randy Waldman

The Basie band has gone through a number of incarnations in the years since his death in 1984, of which...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Album Interview: Lizz Wright: Grace

Jay Bellerose | Lizz Wright | Kenny Banks Sr | David Pitch | Marvin Sewell

This sixth studio album from Lizz Wright presents a number of key firsts for the Georgia-born vocalist and songwriter. Most...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Curtis Stigers with the Danish Radio Big Band: One More for the Road

Danish Radio Big Band | Curtis Stigers

If there are some albums which outstay their welcome by shoehorning in a sub-par filler or two, equally there are...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Takuya Kuroda: Zigzagger

A Lee Morgan-influenced, Japanese-born New York-based trumpeter making a thoroughly contemporary album that takes its cues from J Dilla beats,...

Reviewed in issue February/2017

Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+ Evolution

Esperanza Spalding | Kimberly Davis | Karriem Riggins | Justin Tyson | Nadia Washington | Katriz Trinidad | Celeste Butler | Fred Martin | Matthew Stevens | Corey King

“Nobody has to know the moral of my show,” Esperanza Spalding sings on ‘Funk the Fear’, and fusillades of fresh...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

John Pizzarelli: Midnight McCartney

Harry Allen | John Pizzarelli | Martin Pizzarelli | Bucky Pizzarelli | Larry Goldings

I've never quite taken to Pizzarelli's effete-sounding, Sinatra-lite vocals while fully realising that I'm in a minority, probably, of one....

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Jamison Ross: Jamison

Alphonso Horne III | Chris Pattishall | Rick Lollar | Dayve Stewart | Jamison Ross | Corcoran Holt | Cory Irvin

Anyone who had the pleasure of hearing the captivating set by the great Carmen Lundy at last year's ReVoice! Festival...

Reviewed in issue September/2015

Lizz Wright: Freedom & Surrender

Lizz Wright

While Lizz Wright's previous release, her 2010 album Fellowship, provided telling insights into her gospel roots, the genre-defying sound-world of...

Reviewed in issue September/2015