Tom Harrell: Oak Tree
Adam Cruz | Luis Perdomo | Tom Harrell | Ugonna Okegwo
Tom Harrell’s latest in a long line of releases finds the trumpeter the sole lead on a set of 11...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2022
Iiro Rantala: Potsdam
With memories of Rantala's Trio Töykeät (a group which in the early 2000s was picked up by Blue Note) now...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022
Darwish: Reclamation
Ben Somers | Darwish | Hamish Balfour | Wes Gibbens | Yazz Ahmed
There might well be lively debate on where this album belongs on the genre exchequer. To all intents and purposes...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2018
Abdullah Ibrahim: The Balance
If your back catalogue with Ekaya includes such essential albums as The Mountain and Water From An Ancient Well, then...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019
Adam Palma: Meets Chopin
By the age of 39, Frédéric Chopin was dead, but he left behind a remarkable legacy of compositions for solo...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2020
Confluence: Chroniques Terrestres
If you had to take a blindfold test, how often could you identify which side of the Atlantic a piece...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016
Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live
While one track from this 1962 Bennett/Brubeck White House summit (‘That Old Black Magic’) had previously been issued on record,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2013
Return To Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
Billy Cobham | Jan Hammer | Jerry Goodman | John McLaughlin | Rick Laird
The Columbia years were curious ones for RTF: Romantic Warrior remains the apogee of grandiloquent fusion statements, with all members...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013
Chet Baker: It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings
These landmark 1950s Riverside albums have been issued, reissued, mastered and remastered, and packaged and repackaged countless times over the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2021
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet: In a World of Mallets
Austin Johnson | Dave Potter | Jason Marsalis | Will Goble
The youngest Marsalis brother is better known as a drummer, but being a member of that multi-talented family it should...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: July/2013
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