The Dave Liebman Group: Earth

Alex Ritz | Bobby Avey | Matt Vashlishan | Dave Liebman | Tony Marino

Best known as a bracing (and absorbing) post-Coltrane player (he was actually one of the first), Dave Liebman upturns expectations...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Frank Sinatra: Masterworks: The 1954-61 Albums

Frank Sinatra

This superb 9-CD set covers almost exactly the same period as the New Continent release from a couple of years...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Eliel Lazo/Yasser Pino/Paul Pineda/Caramelo de Cuba: Cuban Jazz Report

Raul Pineda | Javier ‘Caramelo de Cuba’ Masso Javier | Eliel Lazo | Yasser Pino

If ever proof were needed that there’s something in the water – and the conservatoires – of Cuba, here it...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2020

Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero

Don Was | Julian Lage | Booker T Jones | Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd | Reuben Rogers | Eric Harland

Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Thena Alexa: Ona

Singer-songwriter Thena Alexa has recorded with hubby Antonio Sanchez’ Migration band and who drums on her quite intriguing, slightly leftfield...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Digby Fairweather: Notes from A Jazz Life

Digby Fairweather

Blessed is the 74-year-old musician who is encouraged to compile a career retrospective, write a detailed autobiographical essay, and lives...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2020

Gina Schwarz: Pannonica

Lisa Hofmaninger | Primus Sitter | Alois Ebert | Florian Sighartner | Lorenz Raab | Philipp Nykrin | Judith Schwarz | Gina Schwarz

Gina Schwarz is a leading exhibit on the Austrian jazz scene, one of the country’s finest bass players and a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Lloyd/Adler: Brittle they Snap

Led by British soprano-tenor saxophonist/improviser Jon Lloyd, this memorial to the US cellist Stan Adler who died very soon after...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Will Vinson: Four Forty One

Matt Brewer | Billy Hart | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Tigran Hamasyan | Rick Rosato | Sullivan Fortner | Gerald Clayton | Will Vinson | Clarence Penn | Matt Penman

Will Vinson, an alto sax specialist originally from London who moved to New York exactly two decades ago, has managed...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Jasper Høiby: Planet B

Jasper Høiby | Josh Arcoleo | Marc Michel

With his Fellow Creatures album in 2016, Danish virtuoso Jasper Høiby (bassist with the thrilling European power trio Phronesis) showed...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020