Billy Childs: Rebirth

Ido Meshulam | Rogerio Boccato | Alicia Olatuja | Billy Childs | Hans Glawischnig | Claudia Acuña | Steve Wilson | Eric Harland

Childs, who turned 60 in March, got off to an early start with J.J. Johnson and then Freddie Hubbard, and...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Raul Midón: Bad Ass and Blind

Gerald Clayton | Lionel Cordew | Richard Hammond | Raul Midón

As anyone who's had the pleasure of seeing him perform live will testify, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Raul Midón is...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Kevin Eubanks: East West Time Line

Kevin Eubanks | Orrin Evans | Dave Holland | Nicholas Payton | Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith | Mino Cinelu | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Bill Pierce | Rene Camacho

This is very much a game of two halves, or an album of two sides, with the proviso that the...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince

Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner | Ronald Bruner Jnr | Ryan Porter | Hadrien Feraud | Cameron Graves | Kamasi Washington

Pianist-vocalist Graves is the first member of ‘The West Coast Get Down’, the collective whence came Kamasi Washington, to make...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Joey DeFrancesco + The People: Project Freedom

Troy Roberts | Joey DeFrancesco | Dan Wilson | Joey Defrancesco | Jason Brown

We don't know when this album was recorded, but it's hard not to hear it as something of a counter-call...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Harold López-Nussa: El Viaje

Ruy Adrián López-Nussa | Ruy Francisco López-Nussa | Harold López-Nussa | Alune Wade | Dreiser Durruthy | Adel González | Mayquel González

It's not about the destination, it's about the journey – or at least it is in the case of Cuban...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Braun Whalum Brown: BWB

This trio of veteran smooth jazz dudes must be able to churn this stuff out in their sleep by now....

Reviewed in issue August/2016

Brian Bromberg: Full Circle

The former Stan Getz sideman/smooth jazz star bassist Brian Bromberg's piccolo bass apes the sound of a guitar throughout this...

Reviewed in issue August/2016

Warren Wolf: Convergence

John Scofield | Christian McBride | Warren Wolf | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Brad Mehldau

The vibraphonist has some really heavyweight company for this, his third US album, including his boss from the Inside Straight...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Tom Tallitsch: Gratitude

An Ohio native, the saxophonist Tom Tallitsch is in the lineage of current mainstream post-bop big tenors and here in...

Reviewed in issue October/2019