Dominic Howles Quintet: Along Came Benny
Dave O'Higgins | Dominic Howles | Matt Fishwick | Nick Tomalin | Ross Stanley | Steve Fishwick
This self-produced (and presumably self-financed) album has taken some time to surface and its appearance now is to be welcomed....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2019
Archie Shepp: Sea of Faces
This 1975 recording was the standout album in the 4CD Archie Shepp compilation set I reviewed in February 2016, and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2017
Lou Donaldson/Grant Green: Cool Blues
Baby Face Willette | Dave Bailey | Grant Green | Jack McDuff | Joe Dukes | Lou Donaldson
These tracks come from Blue Note sessions taped by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder at his New Jersey studio, so...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2013
Joe Harriott/Amancio D'Silva: Hum Dono
Amancio D'Silva | Bryan Spring | Dave Green | Ian Carr | Joe Harriott | Norma Winstone
Such is the Holy Grail cachet of this album it's impossible not to see the sign ‘Rarer than hen's teeth’...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015
Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-ding-ding and I Remember Tommy
Frank Sinatra | Johnny Mandel | Nelson Riddle
You won't find Sinatra mentioned in many books on jazz. Indeed, for over the past 50 years, whether or not...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2012
Michael Garrick Septet ft. Joe Harriott: …At Short Notice
As the classic 1950s and 60s jazz recordings slip into the public domain, more and more labels fall over themselves...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/2020
Dameronia's Legacy All-Stars: Live at Audi Forum Ingolstadt
Dameronia was a 1980s all-star group dedicated to the performance of music by Tadd Dameron, and led, initially, by drummer...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022
Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good!
Two great drummers, two very different outcomes. Jazz was a part of New Orleans-born Idris Muhammad's upbringing early on, and...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023
Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments
Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Scott Colley
Criss Cross boss-producer Gerry Teekens is astonishingly loyal to his artistes. Take Russian trumpeter Sipiagin, for years now an in-demand...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013
Julian Argüelles: Tonadas
Ivo Neame | James Maddren | Julian Argüelles | Sam Lasserson
Premier UK saxophonist-composer Julian Argüelles has been in inspired form throughout a prolific period of recording this past decade. He...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018
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