Echoes of Ellington Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Planets
Reedman Peter Long founded Echoes of Ellington 25 years ago and has always sought to present the late maestro's music...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2018
Album Interview: Chris Potter: The Dreamer Is The Dream
Chris Potter | David Virelles | Joe Martin | Marcus Gilmore
This is Chris Potter's third album for ECM. The first, The Sirens, was inspired by Homer's Odyssey and introduced David...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2017
Glenn Zaleski: My Ideal
Craig Weinrib | Dezron Douglas | Glenn Zaleski | Ravi Coltrane
You have to wait until the end of this album before you hear Zaleski's mentor Ravi Coltrane. The tenor saxophonist...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2015
Rob Mazurek – Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers
Since its debut release, 2007's We Are All from Somewhere Else, Exploding Star Orchestra's ever-shifting personnel has mostly hovered around...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth by Day
Just as Wilson's move to Blue Note records from JMT in 1993 saw her reinvent herself under the aegis of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015
Bettye LaVette: Thankful N' Thoughtful
Featuring the brilliant production of Craig Street, Thankful N' Thoughtful marks 50 years in music for the Detroit-reared R&B legend...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2012
Tricotism: Nostalgia
Craig Milverton | Nigel Price | Sandy Suchodolski
These three have done this sort of thing before, inspired by the great Peterson, Pass, Ray Brown trio, and here...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2021
Paolo Fresu and Omar Sosa: Alma
Jacques Morelenbaum | Omar Sosa | Paolo Fresu
With two outstanding musicians from Europe and the Americas – Italian trumpeter Fresu and Cuban pianist Sosa – coming together,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012
The Cookers: Believe
This band really has such a distinctive sound. Totally different from anything else on the scene today. It's a magic...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2012
Shatner's Bassoon: Aquatic Ape Privilege
Andrew Lisle | Craig Scott | Johnny Richards | Mike Bardon | Oliver Dover
Noel Edmonds was one of those who got caught out by surreal comic writer Chris Morris' bogus scam ...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013
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