The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak
Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins
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
Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus
Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary
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
Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian
Mulgrew Miller | Ron Carter | Russell Malone
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
Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns
Hedvig Mollestad | Ole Mofjell | Ståle Storløkken
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
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & The Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco
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
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot
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
The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight
Mick Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Tubby Hayes
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
Paul Grabowsky Sextet: The Bitter Suite
Andrew Robson | Cameron Undy | James Greening | Jamie Oehlers | Paul Grabowsky | Simon Barker
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
Charles Mingus: The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s
Bobby Jones | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | John Foster | Jon Faddis
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
Tineka Postma: The Dawn of Light
Esperanza Spalding | Frans Van Der Hoeven | Marc Van Roon | Martijn Vink | Tineke Postma
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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