Review of Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Quartet At Pizza Express Live

Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Quartet At Pizza Express Live

Dave Green | John Pearce | Scott Hamilton | Steve Brown

PX Records PX

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Charles Evans: Subliminal Leaps

Charles Evans: Subliminal Leaps

Charles Evans | Dave Liebman | Ron Stabinsky | Tony Marino

More Is More

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Esther Phillips: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Esther Phillips: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach

Jazzline

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Bruford: One of a Kind

Bruford: One of a Kind

Allan Holdsworth | Bill Bruford | Dave Stewart | Jeff Berlin

Winterfold Records/Cherry Red

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Kenny Barron Trio: Minor Blues

Kenny Barron Trio: Minor Blues

Ben Riley | George Mraz | Kenny Barron

Venus

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation

Chris Speed | Chris Tordoni | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell

Pi Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Fergus Quill Trio: Zoop Zoop

Fergus Quill Trio: Zoop Zoop

Fergus Quill

Tight Lines

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles

Freddie Hubbard | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★★

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

Review of Bernd Reiter Quintet featuring Eric Alexander: Workout At Bird's Eye

Bernd Reiter Quintet featuring Eric Alexander: Workout At Bird's Eye

Bernd Reiter | Eric Alexander | Helmut Kagerer | Olivier Hutman | Viktor Nyberg

SteepleChase

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Grant Green: Oleo

Grant Green: Oleo

Adam Nussbaum | Jay Anderson | Joe Magnarelli | Stephen Riley

SteepleChase

Rating: ★★

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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