Art Pepper: Intensity
Art Pepper | Dolo Coke | Frank Butler | Jimmy Bond
Intensity was the final album of Art Pepper’s golden late 1950s first period. However, he wasn’t around to see this...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2025
Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again
Bill Charlap | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington
Hearing Bill Charlap in the flesh is a great experience. He seems to be doing very little but what pours...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
John Scofield: Uncle John’s Band
Bill Stewart | John Scofield | Vincente Archer
This double CD set is the ECM debut of the latest version of John Scofield’s trio, with Vincente Archer in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2023
Vince Guaraldi: It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!
One of the slightly irritating aspects of this series of reissued Guaraldi soundtrack albums for Peanuts is that many of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025
JD Allen: The Dark, The Light, The Grey and The Colorful
Gregg August | Ian Kenselaar | JD Allen | Nic Cacioppo
JD Allen, the Michigan-born tenor saxophonist, has a poetic imagination and a resolute focus on how best to use it....
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2024
Evan Parker & Paul G. Smyth: Calenture and Light Leaks
Here's one sure-fire way of spotting an improv CD that's a record of a live performance: it contains two tracks...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019
Claudio Filippini Trio: Breathing in Unison
Claudio Filippini | Olavi Louhivuori | Palle Danielsson
It has been a long journey since Filippini debuted his trio in 2003 with Love Is the Thing and the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2014
Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne: Homecoming
Vince Mendoza has had quite a long association with the WDR Big Band, dating back at least to the Vince...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017
Moses Boyd: Dark Matter
Moses Boyd has a knack for melding genres and for presenting his work in a way that makes it not...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020
Yellowjackets: Raising Our Voice
Bob Mintzer | Dane Alderson | Luciana Souza | Russell Ferrante | Will Kennedy
I’ve said it before, and I’ll labour it again, but things may come and things may go, but like the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
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