Review of Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out

Frank Zappa

Zappa Records/Universal Music

Rating: ★★★★

As a result of the Zappa Family Trust regaining control of their album catalogue from Rykodisc, and signing a new...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2012

Review of David Lyttle: Faces

David Lyttle: Faces

Anne Lyttle | Cleveland Watkiss | David Lyttle | Duke Special | Eoin Walsh | Homecut | Illspokkin | Jan Lyttle | Jason Rebello | Jean Toussaint

Lyte Records

Rating: ★★★

David Lyttle began his career as a child performer with the Lyttle Family. Now (just) in his 30s, he has...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Review of The Underflow

The Underflow

David Grubbs | Mats Gustafsson | Rob Mazurek

Corbett Vs. Dempsey

Rating: ★★★

Though recorded live in Athens, Greece – at the Underflow Record Shop And Art Gallery, thus gifting the project its...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Review of John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions

John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions

Art Pepper | Bill Perkins | Bob Enevoldsen | Buddy Clark | Buddy Collette | Conte Candoli | Don Bagley | Hampton Hawes | Herb Geller | Jack Montrose

Phono

Rating: ★★

It's said that the French horn is frequently used in orchestral music to both soothe or lift the spirits –...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2017

Review of Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing

Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing

Daniel Sadownick | David Hazeltine | David Williams | Eddie Henderson | Joe Farnsworth | Mary Stallings | Vincent Herring

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

A celebration of a lifetime in jazz (including stints with Cal Tjader, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2019

Review of Rez Abbasi Trio: Continuous Beat

Rez Abbasi Trio: Continuous Beat

John Hebert | Rez Abbasi | Satoshi Takeishi

Enja

Rating: ★★★

Abbasi is nothing if not fecund. This is his ninth album, but at least his third in rapid succession...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013

Review of Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences

Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences

Georg Wissel | George Cremaschi | Matthew Goodheart | Matthias Muche | Melvyn Poore

Infrequent Seams

Rating: ★★★

You don’t need a degree in electro-acoustic sound engineering to appreciate what’s going on here, but it probably helps.Goodheart’s piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Review of Jaga Jazzist: Starfire

Jaga Jazzist: Starfire

Andreas Møjs | Erik Johannessen | Even Ormestad | Lars Horntveth | Line Horntveth | Marcus Forsgren | Martin Horntveth | Øystein Moen

Ninja Tune

Rating: ★★★

We live in a machine music age that's reached an increasingly polarised apotheosis. At one end ‘artists’ with barely a...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2015

Review of David Binney: Lifted Land

David Binney: Lifted Land

Craig Taborn | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Tyshawn Sorey

Criss Cross Criss

Rating: ★★★

He might slip under the radar these days more than he should, but the Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Review of Alex Sipiagin: Ascent To The Blues

Alex Sipiagin: Ascent To The Blues

Alex Sipiagin | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Diego Rivera | Rudy Royston

Posi-Tone

Rating: ★★★

Sipiagin has been a mainstay of the New York scene since moving from Russia in 1990, and has been a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2022

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