Review of Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Clare Daly | Dave Hofstra | David F Gibson | George Garzone | Jon Davis

Daly Bread Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now 65, Clare Daly, a Berklee graduate and educator, has made quite a name for herself on her native New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023

Review of Hejira: Live at the Cockpit

Hejira: Live at the Cockpit

Chris Eldred | Dave Jones | Hattie Whitehead | Marc Cecil | Ollie Weston | Pete Oxley | Rick Finlay

Editor's Choice

Spin Jazz Productions

Rating: ★★★★

As readers will recall from February’s Jazzwise, Hejira are a seven-piece British band dedicated to playing the music of Joni...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

Review of Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

Barbara Thompson | Barry Guy | Brian Smith | Bud Parkes | Dave Clempson | Dave Gelly | Dave Greenslade | Derek Wadsworth | Dick Hart | Dick Heckstall-Smith

Dusk Fire

Rating: ★★★★

With Humphrey Lyttelton's endearingly stumbling announcements and a veritable fantasy football league of early 1970s jazz musicians associated with various...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2017

Review of Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Properbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Review of Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain

Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain

Bob Sydor | Dave Warren | Dick Pearce | John Williams | Karen Sharp | Nikki Iles | Pete Hurt | Roger Garftt | Tom Mark | Trevor Tomkins

Re-stringing the Lyre

Rating: ★★★

The fusion of poetry with jazz has been like a furtive undertow in the music's development. The idea appears and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Review of Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016

Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016

Barry Guy | Dave Holdsworth | Howard Riley | Hugh Metcalfe | Larry Stabbins | Paul Rutherford | Phil Wachsmann | Stefan Hoelker | Tony Oxley

Discus

Rating: ★★★

Little needs to be said of percussionist Tony Oxley’s credentials as a figurehead of improvised music – either through his...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Review of Partikel: String Theory

Partikel: String Theory

Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Carmen Flores | Dave Le Page | Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Mathew Sharp | Max Luthert

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

London based trio, Partikel, have been playing together for over six years, including a running regular weekly jam session at...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Review of Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Alan Skidmore | Brian Smith | Chris Spedding | Dave MacRae | Frank Ricotti | Ian Carr | John Marshall | Karl Jenkins | Ray Babbington | Ray Warleigh

Editor's Choice

Jazz In Britain JIB

Rating: ★★★★

The not-for-profit Jazz in Britain team have done UK jazz a huge service by releasing previously unissued material, mainly from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady | Brian Bromberg | Dave Weckl | Greg Phillinganes | Gregory Porter | Harvey Mason | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa | Roy Hargrove

Verve

Rating: ★★

That the Slovakian-born guitarist is only 17 and a precociously gifted technician is the hook here. It starts promisingly with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Review of Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon

Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon

Cecil Brooks | Danny Ray Thompson | Dave Davis | Dave Hotep | Elson Nascimento | Farid Barron | James Stuart | Knoel Scott | Marshall Allen | Stanley Morgan

Editor's Choice

In+Out Records CD/DVD

Rating: ★★★★

In 1990 Sun Ra and his Arkestra were invited to play a prominent role at a Turkish music festival in...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015

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