Review of Ray Charles: Zurich 1962

Ray Charles: Zurich 1962

Bruno Carr | David Newman | Dickie Wells | Don Wilkerson | Edgar Willis | Elbert ‘Sonny’ Forriest | Hank Crawford | Henderson Chambers | John Hunt | Keg Johnson

TCB

Rating: ★★★★

Just three months after yet another raucous open air appearance at the annual jazz festival staged at Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Ray...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2017

Review of Satori: In the Corners of Clouds

Satori: In the Corners of Clouds

Dave Whitford | James Maddren | Josephine Davies

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Since winning the Perrier Young Jazz Award and graduating from NYJO, Josephine Davies has developed her musicianship playing with bands...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Henrik Jensen: Above Your House

Henrik Jensen: Above Your House

Dave Smith | Esben Tjalve | Henrik Jensen

Babel

Rating: ★★★

Congratulations to Oliver Weindling for keeping the Babel label going for 30 years, marked by this release, his first for his...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2024

Review of Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox

Allan Harris: Black Bar Jukebox

Allan Harris | Jake Goldbas | Leon Boykins | Pascal Le Boeuf | Samuel Torres | Yotam Silberstein

Must Have Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

A three-time winner of the New York Nightlife Award for ‘Outstanding Jazz Vocalist’, and named by Tony Bennett as ‘my...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2015

Review of The Louis Fragoroso Big Band: Loud and Live – The LFBB at the Sheboygan Arena

The Louis Fragoroso Big Band: Loud and Live – The LFBB at the Sheboygan Arena

Louis Fragoroso

Thunderous

Rating: ★★★★

Louis Fragoroso was a small man with a very big sound. Very big. Long-serving saxophonist Bentley Drummond recalled, “Louis was...

Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: April/2018

Review of Contraband: Time & Space

Contraband: Time & Space

Brian Moffatt | Bruce Cale | Charles Orena | David Pritchard | Pete Robinson

Epic 1971

With Fontanelle's new album Vitamin F currently making waves, it'd be nice to think the ring modulator is primed for...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2013

Review of Linda Oh: Initial Here

Linda Oh: Initial Here

Dayna Stephens | Fabian Almazan | Jen Shyu | Linda Oh | Rudy Royston

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

Initial Here is the second album from bassist Linda Oh: born in Malaysia, raised in Perth and now resident in...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2012

Review of Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zürich Concert

Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zürich Concert

Ben Davis | Drew Gress | Ingrid Laubrock | Liam Noble | Mary Halvorson | Ted Reichman | Tom Arthurs | Tom Rainey

Intakt Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Ingrid Laubrock is a musician of rare sensitivity and imagination (this is me talking, by the way, not the press...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2014

Review of Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Bill MacCormick | Brian Eno | Dave MacRae | Dave Macrae | Dave Sinclair | Mutter Korus | Phil Miller | Robert Wyatt

Esoteric

Rating: ★★★★

Matching Mole are usually seen as a transitionary stage in the career of Robert Wyatt. The group formed in 1971,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2012

Review of Salvodelli Casarano Bardoscia: The Great Gig In The Sky

Salvodelli Casarano Bardoscia: The Great Gig In The Sky

Boris Salvodelli | Dewa Budjana | Marco Bardoscia | Maurizio Nobili | Raffaele Casarano

MoonJune

Rating: ★★

Curiously, perhaps, Pink Floyd haven't spread their influence across the jazz world, although Sam Yahel's Jazz Side of the Moon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

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