Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II
The not-for-profit Jazz in Britain team have done UK jazz a huge service by releasing previously unissued material, mainly from...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023
Harold Land and Kenny Dorham: Complete Recordings – Eastward Ho!/Fire in the West
Though they struck up a strong friendship around the time Land was with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown group, these two...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Howard Riley: To Be Continued
The elusive veteran pianist resumes his specialised solo piano role, playing mostly his own compositions, marked by intriguingly detailed harmony...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015
John Coltrane: Olé Coltrane
The last of the original Atlantic Coltranes, Olé often gets overlooked because it doesn't have the impact of earlier albums...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2018
University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Ruby Suite
The University of Toronto orchestra pays tribute here to one of Canada's most distinctive jazz exports, trumpeter-composer Kenny Wheeler, with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017
Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon
In 1990 Sun Ra and his Arkestra were invited to play a prominent role at a Turkish music festival in...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015
Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi
The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014
Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here
Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Pete Horsfall | Will Cleasby
Kansas Smitty's is a Hackney bar as well as a band, a musical utopia whose name was conjured from speakeasy...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020
The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2
Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom
Following the satisfying Vol. 1 comes the understandably titled Vol. 2 of this band's exploration of ‘contrafacts’: new compositions built...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014
Linley Hamilton: Making Other Arrangements
Trumpeter Hamilton is a luminary of the Northern Ireland jazz scene: well-known as a broadcaster, teacher and jazz activist. He...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2018
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