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Cab Calloway: The Hi-De-Ho Man 1930-1952
Two years after the Acrobat Calloway collection (reviewed in Jazzwise, July 2022), along comes another 2-CD set, that somehow squeezes...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024
Joe Webb: Collblanc
Joe Webb | Will Sach | Sam Jesson
A quick Google reveals that Collblanc is a suburb of Barcelona: qué significa? No importa: the main point of interest...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2024
The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Swings the Blues
CBO Band Director Scotty Barnhart made the thank-you speech when the Blues Foundation’s inducted Count Basie into their Blues Hall...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Jowee BASH Omicil: Spiritual Healing Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite
Jowee BASH Omicil | Yoann Danier | Jenda Manga | Jonathan Jurion | Randy KerBer | Arnaud Dolmen
Some 10 years ago Jowee Omicil was being touted as the next big thing in Caribbean jazz. But the buzz...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Marshall Gilkes and the WDR Big Band: Lifesongs
Sabeth Perez | Marshall Gilkes
While Germany Deutschlandfunk is Germany’s national state radio and TV station, each of the main German regions also have a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Joe Henderson: Power To The People
Jack DeJohnette | Herbie Hancock | 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
Steve Swell Matthew Shipp: Space Cube Jazz
A meeting of two of the seminal American musicians on French label Rogueart. Trombonist Steve Swell and pianist Matthew Shipp...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band
Melvin Taylor | Steve Potts | Willie Smith
Along with Robert Cray, Melvin Taylor was one of the most significant figures to emerge in blues in the 1980s....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley: Journey to Where
In effect a trio album: the Wigmore Hall plays its own part alongside Clowes and Stanley as they explore the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Annie Chen: Guardians
For her latest album, inspired by a wintertime visit to Acadia National Park in Maine, the Beijing-born, New York-based vocalist,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2024
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