Review of Dave Brubeck Quartet: Their Last Time Out

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Their Last Time Out

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★

The album title says it all. At the end of 1966, Brubeck had advised the quartet that he would be...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2012

Review of Dave Mooney and the Hope of Home Band: Live at National Sawdust

Dave Mooney and the Hope of Home Band: Live at National Sawdust

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★

Recorded Live in Brooklyn, guitarist Dave Mooney keeps good company with a contemporary quintet featuring drummer Brian Blade, but throughout...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Review of Dave Pietro: Hypersphere

Dave Pietro: Hypersphere

ArtistShare

Rating: ★★★

Saxophonist Pietro heads a good quality large ensemble (that includes pianist Gary Versace and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin) through an airily...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020

Review of Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin: Brasil

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin: Brasil

Bruno Migotto | Celso Fonseca | Chico Pinheiro | Dave Grusin | Edu Ribiero | Gregoire Maret | Ivan Lins | Lee Ritenour | Marcelo Costa | Tatiana Parra

Candid

Rating: ★★★

Fifty years or so after they started recording together, including plenty of Brazilian-influenced music, Ritenour and Grusin set off last...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024

Review of Miles Davis: Miles Davis Miles At The Fillmore. Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol.3

Miles Davis: Miles Davis Miles At The Fillmore. Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol.3

Airto Moreira | Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Steve Grossman

Editor's Choice

Columbia Legacy

Rating: ★★★★

“Bill and I got along all right, but we had our disagreements because Bill is a tough motherfucking businessman, and...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2014

Review of Agile Experiments: Alive in the Empire

Agile Experiments: Alive in the Empire

Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | John Edwards

Dave De Rose Records

Rating: ★★★★

Agile Experiments’ vinyl-only releases emphasise the Dave De Rose’s collective’s ethos since their 2015 start, fiercely improvising to curious Brixton...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Finger Poppin'

Rating: ★★★★

In 1958, the Brubeck Quartet undertook an exhausting tour, first in Europe and then, sponsored by the US State Department,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Review of Dave Okumu: Knopperz

Dave Okumu: Knopperz

Transgressive Records

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist-singer Okumu, a Mercury prize nominated artist from London’s F-ire Collective, follows his own understatedly inventive and spacious, genre-twisting vein...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Review of Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity

Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity

Carmen Rothwell | Dave Adewumi | Dave Douglas | Fabian Almazan | Joey Baron | Mathew Stevens

Greenleaf

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps it's easier to put aside the Dizzy Gillespie associations.Douglas only addresses a couple of Dizzy tunes, although echoes and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Review of The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces

The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces

Al Johnson | Al MacMillan | Arnie Chycoski | Bobby Hales | Carse Sneddon | Chris Gage | Dave Quarin | Dave Robbins | Dick Forrest | Dick Grove

Reel to Real

Rating: ★★★

Appropriately enough, when we have a newfound appreciation for Canadians, here’s a glimpse at those who didn’t go Stateside like...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2025

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