Review of The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

Waxtime In Color

Rating: ★★★

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Review of Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary

F-IRE Presents F-IRE

Rating: ★★★★

Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Review of Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian

Mulgrew Miller | Ron Carter | Russell Malone

In & Out IOR

Rating: ★★

When a man gets old his reflexes slow down and he starts to take life easier. It's only natural, especially...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2013

Review of Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad | Ole Mofjell | Ståle Storløkken

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★★

Mollestad has always had to barrel hoop her energies to bring form to her eruptive powers. Her trio is hyper-rehearsed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023

Review of John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco

Etienne M’Bappe | Gary Husband | Jason Crosby | Jeff Sipe | Jimmy Herring | John McLaughlin | Kevin Scott | Matt Slocum | Ranjit Barot

Abstract Logix

Rating: ★★★★

An important album in John McLaughlin's discography, Live in San Francisco is taken from his farewell tour of the US...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Review of Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot

Brandon Seabrook | David Taylor | Jon Irabagon | Kevin Shea | Moppa Elliott | Peter Evans | Ron Stabinsky

Hot Cup

Rating: ★★★

Formed in 2003, the wacky satirists MOPDTK are the new arch subversives of the New York underground jazz scene. Their...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Review of The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight

The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight

Mick Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Tubby Hayes

Jazz In Britain

Rating: ★★★★

There was a time when the only representation of Hayes on record was to be found in secondhand vinyl shops...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

Review of Paul Grabowsky Sextet: The Bitter Suite

Paul Grabowsky Sextet: The Bitter Suite

Andrew Robson | Cameron Undy | James Greening | Jamie Oehlers | Paul Grabowsky | Simon Barker

ABC

Rating: ★★★★

Paul Grabowsky is one of the major figures in the Australian jazz scene, but it would be fair to say...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015

Review of Charles Mingus: The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s

Charles Mingus: The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s

Bobby Jones | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | John Foster | Jon Faddis

Editor's Choice

Resonance HLP 9063

Rating: ★★★★

Change has been a constant in the history of black music, but the time in which Charles Mingus led a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022

Review of Tineka Postma: The Dawn of Light

Tineka Postma: The Dawn of Light

Esperanza Spalding | Frans Van Der Hoeven | Marc Van Roon | Martijn Vink | Tineke Postma

Challenge Records

Rating: ★★★

The fifth album from one of Holland's most sophisticated young post-bop saxophonists, The Dawn of Light is also a notable...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

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