Review of Paul Dunmall New Quartet: World Without

Paul Dunmall New Quartet: World Without

Dave Kane | Miles Levin | Paul Dunmall | Steven Saunders

577 Records

Rating: ★★★

Saxophone warhorse Paul Dunmall has lately been enjoying a purple patch of working with talented younger players – most notably...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2023

Review of Artie Zaitz: The Regulator

Artie Zaitz: The Regulator

Artie Zaitz | Dave Pattman | Fausta Joly | Ross Stanley | Steve Brown

ECN Music/Banger Factory Records

Rating: ★★★

Zaitz flows across the frets with such fluency that it’s almost too easy to file his debut under ‘fun’ but...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2024

Review of Various Artists: All Night Long OST

Various Artists: All Night Long OST

Allan Ganley | Charles Mingus | Colin Purbrook | Dave Brubeck | Johnny Dankworth | Johnny Scott | Kenny Napper | Stan Roderick | Tubby Hayes

Harkit

Rating: ★★★

Originally released on CD in 2004, the 1960s soundtrack CD specialist label Harkit reissue this British jazz soundtrack: a fascinating...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of The Code Quartet: Genealogy

The Code Quartet: Genealogy

Lex French

Justin Time

Rating: ★★★

As the notes accompanying Genealogy put it, the album “builds on the freedom of expression pioneered by Ornette Coleman's seminal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021

Review of Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk

Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk

Don Alias | Herb Bushier | Herbie Hancock | Jim Madison | Joe Beck | Joe Farrell | Ray Mantilla | Steve Gadd

Rating: ★★★

When Corea replaced Joe Farrell in Return to Forever with Bill Connors’ rock-angled guitar, it changed not only jazz (fusion)...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Review of Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

James Francies | Marcus Gilmore | Pat Metheny

Editor's Choice

BMG/Modern Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Our received notions of Pat Metheny is that there is not one, but two Pat Methenys. There’s the Pat Metheny...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Review of Calum Gourlay: Live At The Ridgeway

Calum Gourlay: Live At The Ridgeway

Calum Gourlay

Two Rivers Records

Rating: ★★★★

Master musicians such as Dave Holland, William Parker and Henry Grimes have proved the acoustic bass can have a mesmerising,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Review of Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda

Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda

Noah Preminger

Dry Bridge Records

Rating: ★★★★

Reeds maestro Noah Preminger and bassist Kim Cass are go-to musicians in New York left-field jazz, The better-known Preminger has...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2021

Review of Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook Volume II

Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook Volume II

Ben Crosland | Dave O'Higgins | John Etheridge | Sebastiaan de Krom | Steve Lodder

Jazz Cat

Rating: ★★★

All respect to Crosland for pursuing his love for Ray (and Dave) Davies with this second splendid volume celebrating their...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2019

Review of WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop

WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop

Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Neil Blandford | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower

Megasound

Rating: ★★★

London quintet WorldService Project’s debut album proper makes good on the promise shown by the handful of EPs they’ve already...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013

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