Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Quartet At Pizza Express Live
Dave Green | John Pearce | Scott Hamilton | Steve Brown
PX Records is the new recording imprint for the Pizza Express Live set-up, headquartered at Dean Street.Logically and sensibly, it...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023
Charles Evans: Subliminal Leaps
Charles Evans | Dave Liebman | Ron Stabinsky | Tony Marino
A youngish Brooklyn-based saxophonist who studied with Liebman, Evans has been a baritone specialist since the age of 17 and...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2014
Esther Phillips: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall
Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach
Mixing jazz, soul, funk and the blues, this 2CD live album recorded at Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall in Hamburg bursts...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Bruford: One of a Kind
Allan Holdsworth | Bill Bruford | Dave Stewart | Jeff Berlin
At what point does Jazz-Rock become Jazz-Rock Fusion or even that word dreaded by all jazz fans, Fusion? This album...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Kenny Barron Trio: Minor Blues
Ben Riley | George Mraz | Kenny Barron
It seems that the Japanese market can never get enough of piano trios. It all began back in the 1970s,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2010
Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation
Chris Speed | Chris Tordoni | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell
The 40-year-old Philadelphian contemporary jazz pianist and composer Matt Mitchell has earned a pedigree in recent years, recording with vanguardists...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2016
Fergus Quill Trio: Zoop Zoop
According to Facebook, the Fergus Quill Trio is ‘a traditional piano trio’ and, inasmuch as there are three of them...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2021
Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles
Freddie Hubbard | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter
Along with Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles represents Herbie Hancock’s finest work for Blue Note. Empyrean Isles is Hancock’s fourth album...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2019
Bernd Reiter Quintet featuring Eric Alexander: Workout At Bird's Eye
Bernd Reiter | Eric Alexander | Helmut Kagerer | Olivier Hutman | Viktor Nyberg
The Austrian drummer here leads his European band and US guest in a tribute to Hank Mobley, taking in a...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: May/2016
Grant Green: Oleo
Adam Nussbaum | Jay Anderson | Joe Magnarelli | Stephen Riley
Blue Note can never be accused of fielding sub-standard rhythm sections to back their headliners, quite the contrary, they more...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2020
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