Canadian Jazz Collective: Septology – The Black Forest Sessions
Gardner, Kirk MacDonald (clarinettist Virginia is his daughter) and Lofsky came together at the behest of manager Judith Humenick to...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023
Algorhythmical: Impending Joy
Chris Greive | Ewen Maclean | Kevin Glasgow | Martin Kersaw | Stu Brown
Right, I am not going to begin this review by saying something patronising about the strength of the current Scottish...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2014
Native Dancer: At PizzaExpress Live – In London
Dan See | Frida Mariama Touray | Jonathan Harvey | Josh Arcoleo | Sam Crowe
Named after, and taking their inclusive musical aesthetic cue from, Wayne Shorter’s genre-bending 1975 album, Native Dancer draw from a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023
Manne up!: Shelly Manne & His Men: Live at the Blackhawk Vol. 1
Joe Gordon | Monty Budwig | Richie Kamunca | Shelly Manne | Victor Feldman
Excellent jazz from the ongoing Contemporary/Craft reissue series, here highlighting one of the leading figures of West Coast jazz, drummer...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One
There's no escaping the Weather Report influence, whether it's in a crop of re-issues from Pastorious and Vitous or here,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014
Jon Lucien: I Am Now
Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011
The Trackers: Gary Husband and Alf Terje Hana: Vaudeville 8:45
Husband describes this music as addressing his sense of loss since the death of his Yorkshire guitarist soulmate Allan Holdsworth....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
Duško Gojković: Doo’s Blues: The 1967 Belgian Radio Recordings
Fans of that splendid but under-recognised musician, the late Serbian trumpeter and composer Duško Gojković (1931-2023) will be delighted with...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2025
Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance
Carlo De Rosa | Justin Brown | Mark Shim | Vijay Iyer
DeRosa is quite a revelation. Best known as a sideman on records with the likes of Ralph Alessi and Rudresh...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012
Beverley Beirne: Dream Dancer
A spotlight, please, for Beverley Beirne, the Yorkshire-based songstress whose superb alto voice has wowed punters everywhere from Rome to...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021
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