Review of Snorre Kirk: What A Day!

Snorre Kirk: What A Day!

Alexander Honey Boulton | Anders Fjeldsted | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Snorre Kirk

Stunt

Rating: ★★★★

Danish drummer-composer Kirk has graced our pages a few times recently and the present quartet (minus Boulton who appears on...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025

Review of Misha Mullov-Abbado: New Ansonia

Misha Mullov-Abbado: New Ansonia

Jacob Collier | James Davison | Matthew Barley | Matthew Heard | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Nick Goodwin | Scott Chapman | Tom Green | Victoria Mullova

Edition

Rating: ★★★

A polished performance at last year's Proms, in the intimate setting of the Elgar Room, showed that Mullov-Abbado's ensemble was...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015

Review of Bob Sheppard: The Fine Line

Bob Sheppard: The Fine Line

Aaron Safarty | Benjamin Shepherd | Bob Sheppard | Jasper Somsen | John Beasley | Kendrick Scott | Maria Puga Lareo | Mike Cottone | Simon Moullier

Challenge

Rating: ★★★

Bob Sheppard is one of the sharpest multi-reed players in contemporary jazz but he rarely fronts his own outfits in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2019

Review of Don Byas Quartet: The Complete 1946-1954 Paris Recordings

Don Byas Quartet: The Complete 1946-1954 Paris Recordings

Art Simmons | Bernard Peiffer | Beryl Booker | Don Byas | Jacques Dieval | Martial Solal | Mary Lou Williams | Maurice Vander | with Billy Taylor

Solid Jazz Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Were it not for the efforts of Gilles Petard's now dormant French-based Classics label in documenting the recordings of Don...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2013

Review of Louis Smith: The Legendary 1957-59 Studio Sessions

Louis Smith: The Legendary 1957-59 Studio Sessions

Art Taylor | Booker Little | Calvin Newborn | Cannonball Adderley | Charlie Rouse | Doug Watkins | Duke Jordan | Frank Strozier | George Coleman | George Joyner

Phono

Rating: ★★★★

So let's hear it one more time for the late Tom Wilson (1931-1978) – a true visionary who produced numerous...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2017

Review of Beats & Pieces Big Band: Ten

Beats & Pieces Big Band: Ten

Anthony Brown | Anton Hunter | Ben Cottrell | Finlay Panter | Graham South | Nick Walters | Oliver Dover | Owen Bryce | Rich McVeigh | Richard Foote

Efpi

Rating: ★★★

Beats & Pieces' director Ben Cottrell is a Manc indie-band singer trapped in a big-band jazz leader's body. Or is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Robert Glasper Trio: Covered

Robert Glasper Trio: Covered

Damion Reid | Robert Glasper | Vicente Archer

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Several years ago it became something of a convention among soul artists to rush out an ‘in concert’ album just...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Review of Ronnie Scott's All Stars: Jazz Classics

Ronnie Scott's All Stars: Jazz Classics

Alex Garnett | James Pearson | Natalie Williams | Pedro Segundo | Sam Burgess

Ronnie Scott's Records

Rating: ★★★

Meet the house band of the updated deluxe Ronnie Scott's Club, an exceptionally versatile outfit which supports the international stars...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2012

Review of Jay Phelps: Raw & Unreleased

Jay Phelps: Raw & Unreleased

Jay Phelps

self-released

Rating: ★★★★

It's a battlefield, the title of Graham Greene's 1934 Depression-era novel said of life, and faced with Covid-19's new erasure...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2020

Review of Alan Skidmore: A Supreme Love

Alan Skidmore: A Supreme Love

Alan Haven | Alan Jackson | Alan Skidmore | Alexis Korner | Ali Haurand | Alphonse Mouzon | Andrew Cleyndert | Arnie Somogyi | Barnaby Dickinson | Bert Courtney

Confront

Rating: ★★★★★

It's testament to the richness of Skid's considerable output over the years that this box set of almost entirely unreleased...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023

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