Kenny Garrett: Do Your Dance

Ronald Bruner | Vernell Brown | McClenty Hunter | Kenny Garrett | Mista Enz | Corcoran Holt | Rudy Bird

Although Garrett has played a fair amount of electric music throughout his lengthy career, notably with Miles Davis in the...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Julian Lage: Arclight

Julian Lage | Scott Colley | Kenny Wolleson

Childhood prodigies rarely soar in their maturity, but Lage, now in his late twenties, is starting to lay down some...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Alfredo Rodriguez: Tocororo

Michel Olivera | Richard Bona | Ariel Bringuez | Ganayva Doraiswamy | Anotnio Lizana | Reinier Elizarde | Alfredo Rodriguez | Ibeyi | Ibrahim Maalouf

Lauded Cuban pianist and composer Rodriguez gives us an album named after the national bird of Cuba, a creature that...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Herlin Riley: New Direction

Herlin Riley

One of the many fine musicians to come out of New Orleans, drummer Herman Riley is probably best known for...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Mack Avenue Superband: Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival 2015

Tia Fuller | Gary Burton | Christian McBride | Carl Allen | Kirk Whalum | Freddie Hendrix | Christian Sands

The Mack Avenue label is old school in a good way. For a start it embraces the players who, for...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Cyrille Aimée: Let’s Get Lost

Rajiv Jayaweera | Adrien Moignard | Cyrille Aimée | Michael Valeanu | Sam Anning

A previous finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition, and winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Leon Thomas: Full Circle

While the likes of Gil Scott-Heron and Lonnie Liston Smith have been pushed as flagship artists in Ace’s excellent curation...

Reviewed in issue August/2016

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra: Looking Forward, Looking Back

the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra and guests | Mitch Glickman

This debut disc from the 67-member Symphonic Jazz Orchestra features two new commissions – and ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. Now why...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci & Brian Blade: Children of the Light

Sachi Patitucci | John Patitucci | Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez

Pérez, Patitucci and Blade came together as Wayne Shorter's rhythm section in 2000. Children of the Light is the first...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Cécile McLorin Salvant: For One to Love

Aaron Diehl | Lawrence Leathers | Paul Sikivie | Cécile McLorin Salvant

For One to Love sees Cécile McLorin Salvant take her audience on another engrossing journey of discovery. If her critically...

Reviewed in issue September/2015