Romain Collin: Press Enter
Born in France but based in New York, to which he moved after graduating from the Berklee College of Music...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015
Snazzback: Ruins Everything
Having steadily grown from a busy busking collective into an even busier live band, the pandemic hit Bristol septet Snazzback...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2023
Bob Bralove/Henry Kaiser/Chris Muir: Positively Space Music
Bob Bralove | Chris Muir | Henry Kaiser
As practised by the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine or String Cheese Incident (other brands are available), psychedelic or...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2017
Lucky Thompson: Soul's Nite Out
Eric Peter | Lucky Thompson | Peer Wyboris | Tete Montoliu
First released on the Spanish Ensayo label, this session has also appeared on Ogun and Nessa, ahead of this reissue...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016
Ben Webster: Live at Pio's
Ben Webster | Bob Cranshaw | Junior Mance | Mickey Roker
First issued back in the 1980s, now available again on vinyl (mastered by Cicely Baston at Air), this might be...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2021
Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2: See The Birds
Smith is one of several notable Americans who straddle the world of jazz, soul and electronica and have an avowed...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2021
Sonny Stitt: Sonny Stitt Meets Sadik Hakim
Buster Williams | JR Mitchell | Sadik Hakim | Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was there at the dawn of what become known as modern jazz – bebop division. Come up with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2015
Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
I’ve always enjoyed Lakecia Benjamin’s studio recordings (2020’s remarkable Pursuance especially), but for me it’s in the live setting where...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2024
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: The Change
Federico Dannemann | Lucques Curtis | Obed Calvaire | Zhenya Strigalev
The major change in the album title is of course the retirement of NYJO's founder, Bill Ashton, after a distinguished...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Makaya McCraven: Deciphering the Message
De’Sean Jones | Greg Ward | Jeff Parker | Joel Ross | Junius Paul | Makaya McCraven | Marquis Hill
Being signed to Blue Note has several advantages. There’s the kudos. The guarantee of quality. Then there’s the access to...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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