Jamil Sherriff’s Five Gold Rings: Red Kite
Caroline Boaden | Jamil Sherriff | Jim Corry | Richard Iles | Sam Quintana
Jamil Sherriff has exerted a mighty influence for good on the UK scene in his role as jazz programme leader...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2024
Kandace Springs: Run Your Race
A tribute to her late father, the Nashville soul singer Kenneth 'Scat' Springs, who fronted his own band and sang...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2024
Dan Weiss: Even Odds
Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Miguel Zenón
The innovative American percussionist/composer Dan Weiss has long been making absorbing jazz out of composing group music from drum patterns...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2024
Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album
Chet Baker | Dave Frishberg | Jack Marshall | Jack Sheldon | Joe Mondragon | Nick Ceroli
Several biographical accounts date Chet Baker’s return to playing, after the 1966 assault that cost him his front teeth, to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2024
Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: Luminissence
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
Vasilis Xenopoulos/Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home
Adam King | Joel Barford | Paul Edis | Vasilis Xenopoulos
Xenopoulos places himself firmly in the ‘straight-ahead’ stylistic category and has never concealed his admiration for Dexter Gordon and Hank...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024
Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Live in Montreal 1975
Cannonball Adderley | Michael Wolff | Nat Adderley | Roy McCurdy | Walter Booker
There’s been a real flurry of late-period Adderley Quintet ‘live’ discoveries recently; this Montreal club recording follows hard on our...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024
Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra: The Solar-Myth Approach
Sun worshippers are having a great time of it of late: following last month’s triple helping of previously unissued Ra,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
Various Artists: Black Jazz Records: The Complete Singles
Along with Tribe and Strata East, Black Jazz is part of the holy trinity of independent labels that documented the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024
Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet
Fabian Almazan | Kush Abadey | Lage Lund | Melissa Aldana | Pablo Menares
The Manhattan-based Chile-born tenor saxophonist-composer Melissa Aldana’s star has been in the ascendant for about a decade now. In 2013...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2024
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