The John Aram Quintet with Kenny Wheeler: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Suite
Andy Scherrer | Colin Vallon | Dave Whitford | John Aram | Kenny Wheeler | Norbert Pfammatter
This stunning production – in terms of packaging, production, an audiophile pressing on 180 gram vinyl and well conceived and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015
Nick Smart's Trogon: Tower Casa
Chris Montague | Dave Hamblett | Denny ‘Jimmy’ Martinez | Kishon Khan | Nick Smart | Pete Eckford
The head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music has released two CDs previously, both tributes, Remembering Nick Drake...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Paul Booth: 44
Booth is the great communicator. Whatever style he plays, and new album 44 covers everything from the rock-grooved ‘Blues in...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
Michel Portal: Men's Land
This album, from a May 1987 concert at the seventh Amiens International Jazz Festival by a group led by tenor...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2016
Steve Melling/Clark Tracey Special Septet: Special One
It’s taken a while for this to emerge but the wait was worth it. Something of a reunion of old...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011
Rosie Frater-Taylor: Featherweight
Dave Edwards | Lewis Moody | Rob Mullarkey | Rosie Frater-Taylor | Tim Potter
If the self-released Bloom was Frater-Taylor’s ‘coming of age’ album, then Featherweight is a realisation that, even at 24, life...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
Nick Costley-White: Detour Ahead
Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | Sam Rapley
This debut from young guitarist Nick Costley-White, one of the founders of influential London night the Jazz Nursery, mixes knotty...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2018
Henry Lowther's Quarternity: Never Never Land
Alan Wakeman | Art Themen | Dave Green Chris Laurence | Henry Lowther | Phil Lee | Trevor Tomkins
Quaternity may very well be the British modern jazz group that you’ve never heard of or is that just me?...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Nigel Hitchcock: Smoothitch
Pity the poor reviewer faced with an album like this. Titles are listed (most tracks credited to ‘Hitch’) as is...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2013
Grant Green and Baby Face Willette: Trio & Quartet/The Complete Recordings
Baby Face Willette | Ben Dixon | Dave Bailey | Fred Jackson | Grant Green | Lou Donaldson
Blink and you could have easily missed Roosevelt Baby Face Willette whose stay at Blue Note amounted to just five...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014
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