Reviews

Review of Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964

Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964

Malcolm Cecil | Johnny Griffin | Stan Tracey | Jackie Dougan

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

A simplistic overview of modern jazz tenor saxophone in 1964 would have Stan Getz blowing bossa-nova at one end and...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024

Review of Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Daniel Casimir | Billy Adamson | Sam Jones | Binker Golding | Sarah Tandy

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

Binker & Moses helped set the UK New Jazz template, but Binker Golding has chafed against its tenets ever since....

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Binker & Moses: Feeding the Machine

Binker & Moses: Feeding the Machine

Max Luthert | Moses Boyd | Binker Golding

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

Binker and Moses arrived with a bang plus an attitude that had more in common with West Coast Get Down...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of Abdullah Ibrahim: Solotude: My Journey My Vision

Abdullah Ibrahim: Solotude: My Journey My Vision

Abdullah Ibrahim

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

Every solo concert by Abdullah Ibrahim is a journey, a pianistic monologue that tells stories from past and present and...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2021/2022

Review of Levitation Orchestra: Illusions & Realities

Levitation Orchestra: Illusions & Realities

Hamish Nockles-Moore | Beatriz Rola | James Akers | Sophie Plummer | Paris Charles | Harry Ling | Domenech Plana | Axel Kaner-Lindstrom | Roella Oloro | Saskia Horton

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★

Levitation Orchestra are a London jazz collective, 14 strong here, whose second album was composed by discussing ideas about childhood,...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2021/2022

Review of Two bites of the Cherry: Don Cherry: Cherry Jam

Two bites of the Cherry: Don Cherry: Cherry Jam

Nana Vasconcelos | Gian Piero Pramaggiore | Don Cherry | Moki Cherry

Black Sweat

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded in Copenhagen, prior to the creation of his defining Complete Communion album for Blue Note, Cherry Jam is a...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Alan Wakeman: The Octet Broadcasts 1969 and1979

Alan Wakeman: The Octet Broadcasts 1969 and1979

Alan Wakeman

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

Gearbox Records have been deep diving and have come up with a sunken treasure – two broadcasts by Alan Wakeman's...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Review of Chiminyo: I am Panda

Chiminyo: I am Panda

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★

Both a percussionist for London jazz trendies Maisha and a Flying Lotus-inspired producer, Chiminyo’s live drums trigger his sampling technology...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Review of Charles Tolliver: Connect

Charles Tolliver: Connect

Charles Tolliver

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

Veteran trumpeter Charles Tolliver came to London in the 1960s as a member of Max Roach's group, but he was...

Reviewed in issue September/2020

Review of Buddy Rich Orchestra: Just in Time: The Final Recording

Buddy Rich Orchestra: Just in Time: The Final Recording

Jim Martin | Steve Marcus | Jay Craig | Kevin Richardson | Dana Watson | Greg Gisbert | Rob Amster | Cathy Rich | Chris Bacas | Buddy Rich

Editor's Choice

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Daughter Cathy Rich’s note reports that this session was recorded at Ronnie Scott’s in 1986 using the Rolling Stones’ mobile...

Reviewed in issue February/2020

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