Paul Desmond: First Place Again
Connie Kay | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond | Percy Heath
Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019
Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop
Matt Clark | Michael Zilber | Mike Clark | Peter Barshay
I wanted to like this album more than I do. Clark is a player named in the press blurb as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
Let Spin: Steal The Light
Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller
Despite Teo Macero's pinhole surgery on Miles Davis's tape mountains, economics and philosophies of authenticity have minimised jazz post-production. This...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2020
Various Artists: New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound
In March 2020 (just before ‘you-know-what’) Bristol jazz promoter Worm Disco Club announced the launch of a record label to...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: December/2020
Veronica Swift: Confessions
Benny Green | Carl Allen | David Wong | Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Russell Hall | Veronica Swift
The daughter of the jazz singer, educator and author Stephanie Nakasian and the late jazz pianist Hod O'Brien, Veronica Swift...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019
Jeff Williams: Another Time
Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John Hébert | John O’Gallagher
The drummer Jeff Williams divides his time between both London and New York. It’s on the latter’s jazz scene that...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Monocled Man: Ex-Voto
Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons
The trumpeter-composer-programmer Rory Simmons is an original member of North London’s underground LOOP Collective, an organization that became very fertile...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022
ELF: Reflections
Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis
Yorkshire-born horn virtuoso Dave Lee is a prominent member of the Michael Nyman Band, as well as having performed at...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2016
Al Jarreau: Original Album Series: We Got By/Glow/All Fly Home/This Time/Breakin' Away
This 5-CD box set from Rhino brings together the first five studio albums of Al Jarreau’s extensive career. The fact...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2011
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