Joe Henderson: Power To The People
Herbie Hancock | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Henderson | Mike Lawrence | Ron Carter
If Hard Bop musicians wanted to loosen their tie in the late 1960s there were three popular ways of doing...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
Various Artists: DJ Natoya Presents Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz Funk from Electric Bird 1978-1987
Ah, it’s guilty pleasure time. Japanese jazz-funk is a many-splendoured thing, with various highways and byways to get pleasantly lost...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Stephen Buono’s Church Chords: elvis, he was Schlager
An interesting case of somebody behind the scenes stepping forward to good effect. Stephen Buono has worked in jazz PR...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
Rasmus Sørensen: Traits
Alexander Claffy | Francesco Ciniglio | Jon Henriksson | Kendrick Scott | Rasmus Sørensen
A simultaneous release of the 20-something Danish pianist Rasmus Sørensen’s debut Traits – originally issued as digital download exclusively in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2024
Art Farmer: Portrait of Art Farmer
Addison Farmer | Art Farmer | Hank Jones | Roy Haynes
Although he’d honed his bop chops with the likes of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon, served time in the R&B...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024
John Taylor/Norma Winstone/Kenny Wheeler: Azimuth
John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Norma Winstone
I’m sure it has been mentioned before, but this Luminessence series of classic ECM re-releases are actually better than the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Anaïs Reno: At PizzaExpress Live - In London
Anaïs Reno | Dave Green | Josh Morrison | Pete Malinverni
As anyone who heard Swiss-born, NYC-based vocalist Anaïs Reno’s debut album, Lovesome Thing, will know, her musicality at the age...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2024
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959
Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond
This is a significant snapshot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in excellent fidelity, that numbers among Brubeck’s finest live albums...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 50th Anniversary Edition
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Their early 1970s recordings never repeated the shock of the new of the Crims’ Court of the… debut, despite Keith...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof
Bassist Todd Sickafoose released his first album Dogs Outside in 2000 and got excellent press for the genre-blending Tiny Resistors...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2023
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