David Duffy Quartet: Where the Branches Begin
David Duffy | Davie Ryan | Emil Nerstrand | Marc Martin | Warren Walker
This debut disc as bandleader from Barcelona-based Irish bassist, composer and producer David Duffy is steeped in widescreen atmospherics –...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2024
Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage To Freedom
An A-list international ensemble led by British saxophonist Benjamin Koppel broaches a timely historic subject: the white buses that carried...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Verneri Pohjola: Monkey Mind
For his fourth album on Edition Records, Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola intended "to approach my own monkey mind and greet...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2024
John Pope Quintet: Citrinitas
Faye MacCalman | Graham Hardy | Jamie Stockbridge | John Pope | Johnny Hunter
Newcastle-native double bassist John Pope here leads his quintet through seven new originals on the follow up to the group’s...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2024
Tito Puente: El Rey Bravo
Puente was more than a decade into his professional career when he released El Rey Bravo in 1962. It was,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024
Mike Westbrook: Live 1972
Alan Jackson | Butch Potter | Gary Boyle | George Khan | Mike Westbrook
Happy birthday Cadillac! Okay, bit late now for their 50 years knees up, but Live 1972 is a fitting marker...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
Christie Dashiell: Journey in Black
Born in Washington, DC and raised in Greenville, North Carolina, vocalist Christie Dashiell honed her skills at Howard University (where...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2024
Tomeka Reid: 3+3 And Then
Jason Roebke | Mary Halvorson | Tomas Fujiwara | Tomeka Reid
Aside from her work with Nicole Mitchell and Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Tomeka Reid has staked a claim as a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2024
Hampton Hawes: For Real!
Frank Butler | Hampton Hawes | Harold Land | Scott LaFaro
Creating headlines like ‘Junkie Jazzman Pardoned by President’, Hampton Hawes’ career was never short of controversy. Indeed, the pianist’s hyper-candid...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2024
Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 (Bonus: After Hours 1950)
This is by no means the first collection released posthumously from Ellington’s 1958 European tour, and the opening two-thirds of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024
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