David Sylvian: Blemish
David Sylvian's journey from pretty pop idol to the outer reaches of the avant-garde is equalled by few other musicians:...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022
Barney Kessel: The Contemporary Years – Selected Recordings 1953-57
Kessel’s Contemporary albums have often been reissued, what with an earlier series on Original Jazz Classics, and then a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58
Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013
Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor
Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015
Eric Reed Quartet: Everybody Gets The Blues
Eric Reed | McClenty Hunter | Mike Gurrola | Tim Green
Reed writes eloquently and touchingly about his religious faith in his lengthy album essay. The son and grandson of devout...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019
In Common: Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, Harish Raghavan and Marcus Gilmore
Harish Raghavan | Joel Ross | Marcus Gilmore | Matthew Stevens | Walter Smith III
Saxophonist Walter Smith III’s evocative low-lights tenor sound and drily quixotic irregularities of phrasing have already graced a fine album...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
Harold López-Nussa: Un Día Cualquiera
Gaston Joya | Harold López-Nussa | Ruy Adrian López-Nussa
With all the uncertainty surrounding the relationship between the North and its Latin American neighbours, some musicians are offering their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018
Barney Kessel: Live at the Jazz Mill 1954
Art Kile | Barney Kessel | Pete Jolly
Here's a discovery. The Jazz Mill club was in Phoenix, Arizona, but only lasted for a year, bringing in top...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2017
Eddie Harris: Silver Cycles
The late Chicago saxophonist can make a credible claim to being one of the great bridges between the mainstream and...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014
Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings
Hess is a Danish pianist-composer in his mid-fifties who, among other things, teaches at the famous Rhythmic Conservatory and has...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2021
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