Nick Finzer: Dreams, Visions, Illusions
Alex Wintz | Dave Baron | Glenn Zalenski | Jimmy Macbride | Lucas Pino | Nick Finzer
The latest album from trombonist Nick Finzer's established sextet explores the role of the muse through a set of workman-like...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2023
Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold
Alan Broadbent | Andrew Cleyndert | Dave Ohm | FAME’s Studio Orchestra | Georgia Mancio
Completing a critically-acclaimed trilogy following Songbook (2017) and Quiet Is The Star (2021), the latest collaboration between vocalist Georgia Mancio...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2025
Various Artists: The Complete BeeHive Sessions
Here is a forcible reminder that Wynton Marsalis didn’t start the back-to-hard-bop movement in the 1980s but, rather like Miles...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016
Emily Saunders: Outsiders Insiders
Bruno Heinen | Byron Wallen | Dave Whitford | Emily Saunders | Jon Scott | Trevor Mires
I was a huge fan of Emily Saunders' 2011 debut Cotton Skies, not least because it showcased an artist who...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015
Brother Jack McDuff: Ain’t No Sunshine: Live in Seattle
Dave Young | Jack McDuff | Lee Johnson | plus uncredited | Ron Davis | Vinne Corrae
This spectacularly so-so excursion into public domain blues riffs by Brother Jack McDuff is certainly not up to the standard...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
Pete Atkin: The Luck of the Draw – The Clive James-Pete Atkin Songbook Volume 2
Although long aware of 78-year-old singer-songwriter Atkin’s association with the late Clive James, I hadn’t ever heard Atkin perform before...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Theo Travis: Secret Island
Dedicated Softs fans will find this debut release on vinyl a timely reissue, given that it features the front men...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2025
Paul Desmond: First Place Again
Connie Kay | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond | Percy Heath
Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019
Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop
Matt Clark | Michael Zilber | Mike Clark | Peter Barshay
I wanted to like this album more than I do. Clark is a player named in the press blurb as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
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